It is often forgotten that Martin Luther King Jr. was a deeply patriotic American. Far from reviling ... have been unthinkable to King to treat the flag with disrespect. In some of the most ...

YK Chalamcherla, a Folsom Cordova Unified School District board member, holds American flags and a poster of Martin Luther King Jr. before the March for the Dream at Sacramento City College on Monday.

January 20 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the life and legacy of the American civil rights icon who was assassinated in 1968. The holiday didn’t come together ...

The resonance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, delivered on the eve of his assassination in Memphis, reverberates through American society with renewed relevance in 2025.