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The University of Richmond community will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 2 p.m. tomorrow with a campus-wide gathering at Camp Concert Hall. The day honors the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights activist, Martin Dozens of area residents attended a "Remembering King" program at The State Museum of Pennsylvania on Sunday. The two-hour program, sponsored [...]

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and achieve common goals. Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday to honor the late civil-rights leader, and many places throughout Central Jersey will be marking In all the coverage of King's life, one quality of his has received comparatively little [...]

Audio slideshow: Martin Luther King Jr. in Wausau: Audio from the speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in Wausau on May 12, 1967, along with photos from the day. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to an audience of 1100 people May 12, 1967, Since 1999, the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University's English Department [...]

6 pm: Labor movie night in Wellstone Hall at the Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Road: “At the River I Stand,” which looks at the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have been to the mountaintop” By Peter Voskamp at TheWrap First Lady Michelle Obama will [...]

By Peter Voskamp at TheWrap First Lady Michelle Obama will be logging extra TV time during the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. On Saturday, Mrs. Obama will join various luminaries for the taping of the fifth annual "BET Honors" 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Swim Classic at the Nassau County Aquatic Center [...]

by A. David Dahmer MADISON – Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and City of Madison Mayor Paul Soglin have announced the recipients of the combined City-County Humanitarian Award honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The award winners, Martin Luther King Jr. joined his activist colleagues in song, his eyes closed, rocking back and [...]

By Times-Picayune Staff Here are some of the events scheduled in the New Orleans area for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday: Sing-along, 10:30-11 am; reading of "My Dream of Martin Luther King," by Faith Ringgold, 11 am and 1 pm, Louisiana Children's Know of other MLK holiday events and volunteer opportunities? Please share them [...]

The expectation led organizers to postpone the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall that was expected to draw up to 250000 people. But beyond the tourist mecca of the Mall, the District of Columbia is a diverse city of By AP, WASHINGTON — Metro plans to open two hours [...]

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, which will be formally dedicated Aug. 28—on the 48 th anniversary of the civil-rights leader's “I Have a Dream” speech—opens to the public this week. Of all the individuals and corporations that have given The Summit, a two-day event, opens with an address from Harry E. Johnson, president of [...]