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Orangeburg County School District's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratory Competition celebrates youth voices for community success and social change on January 28, 2025.

The NAACP Norwich Branch, NAACP Robertsine Duncan Youth Council and Norwich Free Academy honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a luncheon Friday.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Jonathan Eig, author of the ...

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King ... Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his ...

Jonathan Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermon to judge people by the content of their character not by the color of the skin still thunders like a hammer on an anvil today, writes Armstrong Williams.

The event is most famous for the "I Have a Dream" speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. from the steps ... on the March on Washington's "tangible accomplishments" misses "the most important ...

MIAMI – Since 1977, long before Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a federal holiday, Miami’s historically-Black Liberty City neighborhood has played host to a parade in the civil rights leader ...

Here’s what to know about openings and closings on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Monday, Jan. 20, is MLK Day, which honors the accomplishments and vision of Martin Luther King Jr. The observance ...

Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else you should know.