The King family revealed in a statement that they were ... Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” said Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, the civil rights leader ...

The King family is responding after President Donald Trump ordered the declassification of documents about the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy and Senator ...

Under Dr. King’s leadership, nonviolent protest became the defining feature of the modern civil rights movement in America. King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while ...

Read more on Duke Today. Federal judge Jerry W. Blackwell stood in the pulpit of Duke Chapel during a Sunday commemoration service for civil rights martyr Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and offered a ...

SANJEEV BHASKAR: His family home was bombed while his wife and child slept, and yet he never wavered from a path of non-violent resistance. What was it that made Dr King choose non-violence?