Jack Thornell, the Associated Press photographer whose picture from an assassination attempt on James Meredith in 1966 won a ...

Mason Temple is getting renovated, the latest in a series for the landmark that has a history as a place where Martin Luther ...

Pulitzer prize winning AP photographer, who captured a key moment of civil rights history in Alabama, has died. Jack Thornell ...

Trump is yet again comparing his crowd sizes to a prominent Black figure, but this time, civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther ...

Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the ...

When some of the United States’ most polarized figures died — sometimes in tragic ways — some people, from presidents to ...

Standing in the spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Church of God in Christ leaders said ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Mason Temple, a church in Memphis where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech, will be upgraded with a $1.2 million federal grant to preserve a treasured ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The National Civil Rights Museum marked the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination Saturday with a ceremony honoring his legacy and calling for continued ...

Beneath the weight of history and memory, Atlanta paused this weekend to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 58 years after his assassination. At the King Center's Freedom Plaza ...

Carrying on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a central theme of the Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu's speech on April 4 — that and reminding everyone to not just remember history, but to also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Tennessee. Editor’s ...