King in those last days of his life was speaking to how the environment and the conditions in which people live and work affect their lives and well-being.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermon to judge people by the content of their character not by the color of the skin still thunders like a hammer on an anvil today, writes Armstrong Williams.

The couple’s new podcast and book challenge the idea of legacy as an endpoint—instead, it’s a daily practice of action and change.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once confessed to Harry Belafonte that he feared Black Americans were "integrating into a burning house," or a nation losing its moral vision, according to the late New York singer and activist. The problem, Belafonte said, required everyday Americans to “become the firemen.”

The resonance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered on the eve of his assassination in Memphis, reverberates through

Martin Luther King Jr. left a blueprint for Americans to face their fears and use the power of community and civic action to hold power accountable.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WBKO) - A Kentucky student has presented a scholarship at the 52nd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday commemorative program at the Central Bank Center. On Jan. 20, the Bluegrass Community and Technical College presented Berea-native Valerie Morris with its annual MLK Scholarship

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

Martin Luther King III, a civil rights activist and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, spoke to CBS News on MLK Day and Trump's inauguration.