Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, is being honored with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital. He will later be honored a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown ...

MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight for ciivl rights.

As she outlined the plans for the King holiday observance and talked about the King Center's future, Bernice King reflected ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

1966: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told reporters in Chicago that he was working on a three-phase plan to mobilize the ...

The city chose Ronney Stevens to paint murals at the ZerNona S. Black Center — which was built on the site where he lived as ...

Portions of the light-rail system in Pittsburgh will be closed for about two months starting on Thursday. Crews are repairing ...

He joined the firm Willis & Knight, but politics was in his blood. In 1983, he was elected Tennessee Democratic Party chair ...

The life and legacy of Jimmy Carter is deeply connected to that of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. President Carter .

MLK Day 2025 falls on Monday, Jan. 20, which in 2025, also falls on Inauguration Day. MLK Day is considered a federal holiday, and as such, the major banks — Bank of America, Capital One, Citibank, ...

His death comes more than a year after the former president entered hospice care.Video above: A look back at the life of former President Jimmy ... Clinton at the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin ...

Jimmy Carter’s life ended where it began, in Plains, Georgia. After losing his 1980 presidential reelection bid, he spent the ...