The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day ... rights leader with a speech at an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service ... Jr. Memorial page. DC Monument Night Tour (Smaller Glass Roof Convertible Available) (6271 ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

Celebrate documentaries and dramas at Filmfest D.C., explore hundreds of bands during Petworth PorchFest, and sample gourmet ...

Civil rights activists and clergy launch a movement in solidarity with a national boycott of Target, focusing on economic ...

Pope Francis visited the United States for the first time, where he received a grand welcome in the nation’s capital before ...

Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both fall on Jan. 20 this year. Since 1965, federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area are entitled to a holiday on the day a president is ...

How egg-citing! Melania Trump hosted 147th White House Easter Egg Roll, a tradition dating back to 1878 during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.

Their primary challenge will be harmonizing the many voices of protest into a mighty chorus of defiance. The movement has a ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate the Democratic Party's top fundraising platform, the ...

as well as the construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. When he heard the main sculptor for the project lived in China, he was inspired as an American to do his own ...