ATLANTA - Fifty-seven years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee — a moment that shocked the world and ...

April 22 is Earth Day. Several organizations in the metro Atlanta area participated in projects or hosted events in honor of ...

But today, his legacy lives on in Atlanta where the city hosted a day of services and parades ... parks and museums named in his honor. Martin Luther King Jr’s birth place home is being ...

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

This recap of the 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemorative Service was prepared by the FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team.

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

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.

Scott King saw the deficit partly as a result of who was doing the telling. At one of the first conferences of King scholars, ...

The annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day invites Americans to reflect ... A name that defined a legacy Born Michael King Jr. in 1929 Atlanta, the future civil rights leader would ...

Dublin is honoring their connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend with their "One Day" civil rights experience ...