Opinion
The president-elect’s inauguration takes place on the holiday honoring the civil rights leader, prompting us to consider how King might respond to Trump’s America.
World & Nation
Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations at his Atlanta congregation featured stern words from his daughter warning against anti-woke rhetoric.
Obituaries
Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has died after battling prostate cancer.
Television
Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Aaron Pierre, stars of National Geographic’s “Genius: MLK/X,” say they had to overcome their doubts to portray the civil rights leaders. The final two episodes run Thursday.
Francisco San Martin, an actor who appeared in ‘Days of Our Lives,’ ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘The Bold and the Beautiful,’ died last week, medical examiner says.
California
The moment between King and L.A. County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn remains important in the minds of many Black residents. It is now memorialized with a bronze statue.
Atlanta police have arrested a woman who’s accused of trying to burn down the birthplace of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital is the keystone of Los Angeles County’s effort to meet the needs of a population struggling with poverty and poor health. Keeping it open is essential.
Image
In 1968, the two men convened an impromptu ensemble that they knew might destabilized their reputations. The day they spent, exhausted together on the crossroads of here and gone, is the kind of convergence they make movies about, so we forget it really happened.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is supposed to honor a man and cause that were all about making this country uncomfortable. The opposite is happening.