As the community walked through the life and legacy of the civil rights leader, none in attendance saw those steps up close more than the night's keynote speaker.
As the country marks Martin Luther King, Jr. day Monday, historian and author Stu Levitan joined News 3 Now Live at Four to recap the civil rights leader's history with Madison, including his two stops in the city during the 1960s.
Civil rights leader Juanita Abernathy, whose influential role in the civil rights movement helped reshape America's cultural and political landscape, has died.
As a crowd of nearly 250,000 people gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these historic words: "I have a dream."
The Atlanta house where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. raised his family with Coretta Scott King will eventually be open to the public, the National Park Foundation, the National Park Service and the King family said.
Sen. Cory Booker says he is nearing a decision on whether to run for president in 2020, but the New Jersey Democrat's schedule over the past weekend left little doubt as to what the decision will ultimately be.
The son of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday criticized Vice President Mike Pence for citing the slain civil rights leader to make the case for a wall along the US-Mexico border.
From the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace to the nation's capital, Americans of all backgrounds on Monday were honoring the legacy of the slain civil rights leader.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said in remarks at a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast Monday that he has made mistakes when it comes to criminal justice issues, an area of his career that could be scrutinized if he launches a 2020 presidential bid in a competitive Democratic field.
President Donald Trump made a brief, unannounced visit to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall in recognition of the holiday honoring the civil rights icon.
"I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
For the second time in less than two weeks, a local television newsperson has used a racial slur while talking about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The National Park Service will use a grant from Delta Air Lines and fee revenues to reopen the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta despite the government shutdown.
For years, Nikeland Nichols has traveled hundreds of miles to march on the streets of Atlanta with his children, sing at the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached and tour the civil rights figure's birth home.
Meteorologist Jeremy Kappell says he could tell he was fumbling his words on air last week, but like any TV journalist, he said he had to keep going.
The meteorologist fired over the use of a racial slur on air just got a big defender -- high-profile weatherman Al Roker.
A television station in Rochester, New York, fired a meteorologist Sunday after he used a racial slur on air.
Athletes call it being "in the zone." Psychologists describe it as a state of "flow." Musicians say it's like being "in the pocket."
Republican Rep. Steve King once appeared on a far-right podcast that frequently gave a platform to white nationalists and whose host has argued that some races are less intelligent than others.
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on the Lincoln Memorial steps during 1963's March on Washington, more than a few famous faces were on hand to help the cause.
Civil rights icon and US Rep. John Lewis of Georgia was released from the hospital Sunday evening with a "clean bill of health," his spokeswoman said.
Thursday marks the anniversaries of both the Waco Branch Davidian siege and the Oklahoma City bombing, just two of the tragic events that scar April in American history.
Ahead of the March for our Lives rally, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg said the media's biggest mistake while covering the school's shooting was "not giving black students a voice."
One of the rallying cries of March for Our Lives has shown up in big white letters outside Minnesota's statehouse.
