WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s ...

Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office Sunday in South Carolina, a state that holds special meaning after his commanding win in the 2020 Democratic primary there set him up to achieve his ...

The term “the beloved community” was first used in the early days of the 20th century by the philosopher-theologian Josiah ...

"One of the great tragedies of life is that more often men seek to live in monologue rather than dialogue," the civil rights icon said at Dartmouth.

In part, he was inspired by Thurman, who had embraced the nonviolence at the heart of Mahatma Gandhi’s resistance against the British in India. For King, nonviolence was the only viable means for ...

For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held on the same day.

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is recognized across the nation, both as a state and national holiday, on the civil rights ...

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the ...