Clara Ester, an activist and minister who rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s side when he was shot, has died at 78.

A huge trove of documents relating to the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr has been released by the US government.

ATLANTA — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 53 years ago today, as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. This year, the date falls on Easter Sunday. At the time of his ...

To civil rights activist Heather Booth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination felt like a rupture. "It was like the breaking of a dream, the breaking of our hopes," Booth recalled in an interview ...

Barbara and Serge Paul-Emile of Berlin were in academia when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated ... and then everything ...