WATCH: Trump marks MLK day with memorial visit
The president had been criticized earlier in the day by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who said it was "an insult to the American people" that the White House was not commemorating the holiday with an event.
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Poor People’s Campaign asks America to face the injustices keeping millions in poverty
Shortly before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. called for an economic revolution with protections for the poorest Americans. Half a century later, a group of religious and moral leaders are planning a revival of the Poor People's Campaign, with…
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Harry Belafonte: To realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, white America needs to change course
To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sits down with one of his closest friends, artist and activist Harry Belafonte, who remembers how they met and what made King so special, as…
Watch Robert Kennedy’s moving remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.
After Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, Kennedy delivered a meditation that mourned King, embraced his message of non-violence and challenged America to confront the “mindless menace of violence” that pervades society.
On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- in Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking sanitation workers -- was shot to death on a hotel balcony. What followed was a national reckoning and the greatest wave of social…
Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for Americans' civil rights -- and his assassination 50 years ago in Memphis -- changed the world. Judy Woodruff sits down with civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, syndicated columnist Connie Schultz, Vann Newkirk of The…
Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest son is calling out President Donald Trump following accusations the president used a vulgarity to describe African countries.
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the White House. Watch it here.
In several moments of the PBS documentary "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise," airing Feb. 21, Angelou is seen upending someone’s worldview.
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