Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day. In 1912 ... In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

there are a number of volunteer opportunities available across the Kansas City metro. They honor the legacy of the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and look toward the future of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald Trump's ... in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. He died 25 hours later.

And so Martin Luther King Day is about celebrating that man and ... a revenge mission But after watching his team blitz Kansas, nearly take down Illinois despite not having Caleb Grill and ...

The 18th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Poetry Competition ... Thursday during the annual Kansas African American Affairs Commission celebration of MLK Day. The event was to begin with an ...