CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights ... for are being destroyed every day," marcher Eric Kittrell said.

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.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King wave to crowd in street from center window of a third-floor ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday honoring the life ... Sanitation departments for major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, also list similar information ...

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 ...

In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day. In 1912 ... In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama ...

This project marks the first major home purchase in 40 years and pays tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a family that ... Ford and his idea of $5 a day for equal work,” Mitchell explained.

A former Evangelical Baptist archbishop in the small country of Georgia is behind the "Peace Cathedral," a Christian church, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago to try to break through discrimination in ...