The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the nation.

King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. When did Martin Luther King Jr. Day become a holiday? Days after King's assassination, legislation was drafted to have Martin Luther King Jr ...

To this day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the only non-president to have ... is said to have joined Shiloh Baptist Church in Greene County, Georgia in 1846. He and his wife Lucrecia Daniel ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered each year with a federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January. Here in the Hostess City, the civil rights leader is

A massive 70-member choir belted out “Hallelujah” on Monday to open a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service at his former congregation in Atlanta, followed by a stern

MLK’s legacy lives on in Atlanta where the city hosted “A day on” of services and parades to honor MLK including projects to feed the homeless.

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements and political changes.

The homeless camp close to the historic Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta, Georgia, was being cleared ahead of the city’s Martin Luther King Day celebration. Authorities haven’t yet made clear how the victim, Cornelius Taylor, was killed, but witnesses told local media that he was run over by a bulldozer brought in to clear the tents.

And that's why I wake up every day trying to think about what I can do for working class people, what legislation I can pass to give every kid in Georgia a chance and in America a chance. Martin: Today is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. It's also ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The cold didn’t stop dozens of people from across South Georgia from celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Shiloh Baptist Church and SOWEGA Rising, honored the late ...

Jan. 20, community partners, vendors and locals throughout Athens braced the cold, gathering on Washington Street to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Sylvester Franklin did what hundreds of millions of Americans do every year: he bought something online. But he didn't get what he paid for.