Streets named for MLK on economic outskirts
Even as the memory of King remains at the heart of American discourse, many of his namesake streets are drifting further to the social and economic periphery...
The anti-MLK letters revealed in 200,000 unseen documents
From the Daily Mail-- One letter suggests that he gives back the Nobel Peace Prize because of the civil unrest he has caused...
Text of Stevie Wonder's speech advocating a national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, January 15, 1981
BUILDING THE DREAM - Text of the speech delivered on Jan 15, 1981 at a rally/march in Washington, DC where Stevie Wonder officially launched the campaign to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday...
Dr. King's 'dream' included justice for black Americans
OPINION - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech is one of the most important pieces of oratory in American history. Every year, countless thousands of school children commit the speech to memory...
MLK, the 2012 campaign and the American dream
OPINION - Dr. King was a longtime champion of the labor movement, and he died in 1968 while marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., all members of AFSCME Local 1733...
How black music made MLK Day possible
OPINION - Stevie Wonder is without question the single most important figure in the realization of an MLK National Holiday, because his inner vision, passion and perseverance...
WATCH: Ronald Reagan makes MLK Day official
VIDEO - In this archival footage President Ronald Reagan officially makes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday...
25 people who paved the way for MLK
SLIDESHOW - In this list of 25 people who paved the way for MLK there are familiar and unfamiliar names but all contributed in great and small ways to the creation of a better nation and world...
MLK archives: The last days of Dr. King
VIDEO - In his last days, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. feared that his dream had become a nightmare...
Obamas attend service at historic DC church
theGRIO REPORT - The Obama family celebrated Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday on Sunday by attending services at an historic African-American church...
