(WIAT) – On this day 56 years ago, a crowd of nearly 250,000 people gathered outside of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. as the Legendary Civil Rights Activist, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Aug. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1922, a New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF. In 1941, Nazi German, Hungarian and Ukrainian police ...

Tchanori Kone's words won her the first place at a Houston speech competition. — -- A fifth-grade Texas girl paid tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nearly 50 years after his death with ...

The iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech urged us to fight against, not double down on, racial resentment. This week marks the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the speech about civil rights ...

Hundreds marched in South Bend, Indiana to celebrate the completion of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Center on the anniversary of King's assassination. The $27 million center replaces the ...

I think that Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech is very powerful. It is hard for me to imagine what it might be like to only dream of being treated fairly, but I know that there are ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — As the nation marks the 62nd anniversary of the largest gathering for civil rights in our country's history, Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" on the National Mall, we ...

On Aug. 28, 1963, my father stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and summoned a nation to listen – not merely to a speech, but to a vision. He dreamed out loud, daring America to imagine itself ...

Rights leaders of the '60s say MLK legacy lives on in vision, if not execution. Jan. 21, 2013— -- Rev. Joseph Lowery remembers when the 1960s South was burning with racism -- the day a white man ...