President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of civil-rights icon Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Eig, who won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, “King: A Life,” said he has probably read about 90% of the available government files related to King, including a trounce of files released in 2017.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family responded to Donald Trump’s move to order the declassification of records linked to the assassination of the American civil rights activist more than 50 years ago. In a statement published on social media Thursday evening,

President Trump signed an executive order to declassify any remaining documents related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by James Earl Ray. The announcement came Thursday ...

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” But if anyone thinks the files will definitively reveal once and for all who killed John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F.

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. expressed their emotional response to President Trump's decision to declassify records related to his assassination, urging that they be allowed to review the files before their public release,

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the civil rights icon’s assassination nearly 60 years ago — a ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. April 4 marks the anniversary of the day Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., there is still "so much work to do" in America when it comes to racial justice and the fight against prejudice. So in honor of the day that would have been Dr. King's 96th birthday, citizens in the Lower Hudson Valley raised their voices and served their communities through their actions.