Martin Luther King

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy.

The late Rep. John Lewis will be remembered with services that begin this weekend in his home state of Alabama, before lying in state at the U.S. Capitol and his funeral next week in Georgia

In his first message from prison, the 81-year-old told NBC10’s Erin Coleman that he is a victim of “entrapment” carried out by a “low-life District Attorney” and “corrupt Judge.”

Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil rights movement, has died, his son said Tuesday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden posed a stark hypothetical to voters in New Hampshire Friday as he discussed today’s volatile political climate: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated? The comment came toward the end of a town hall meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College ostensibly about healthcare issues, NBC News reports. It was not part of Biden’s standard...

A black artist has dropped his bid to build a slave memorial in front of Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall after the NAACP objected. Steve Locke announced Tuesday on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter that he won’t go forward with the project because the president of the Boston chapter of the prominent civil rights group warned him they would come out strongly...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he was reluctantly prepared to slap retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods if negotiators in Washington had failed to strike a deal, addressing a boisterous celebratory rally Saturday in the border city of Tijuana. The president’s comments came shortly after his foreign minister and chief negotiator, Marcelo Ebrard, told the rally the country had...

Bill Cosby’s insurance company has agreed to settle lawsuits filed by seven women who say the comedian defamed them when he accused them of lying about sexual misconduct allegations.

Reverend Shane Harris, who is also a human right and political activist, talks to our anchors Greg and Marianne about why it is important to rename Market St. to Martin Luther King Blvd.

Cosby’s spokesman provided a glimpse the former star’s new life behind bars. The 81-year-old’s routine is a far cry from his previous days when many considered the comedian “America’s dad.”

Students at UCSD and Mission Bay High honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by a day of service. NBC 7’s Melissa Adan has more.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence made a brief surprise visit Monday to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to rally with Boston airport workers to highlight the federal government shutdown and other concerns.

Let Freedom Ring!

The National Park Service is exploring whether to require protest organizers to pay for the cost of providing law enforcement and other support services for demonstrations held in the nation’s capital.

That relationship between the White House and the Supreme Court is being examined anew following the bitter confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh, who angrily denounced President Donald Trump’s political opponents during a Senate hearing. Kavanaugh, who previously served in President George W. Bush’s White House, took the concerns about his appearance of partisanship so seriously that he wrote a Wall...

Marlin Briscoe didn’t want to be pigeonholed simply because of stereotypes against black men. He was a star quarterback in college, and he believed he had the talent, intelligence and leadership skills to be one in the pros. Fifty years ago, during an era of massive social upheaval in the United States, just getting a chance to prove it took...

In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the U.S. Saturday against gun violence, vowing to transform fear and grief into a “vote-them-out” movement for tougher laws on weapons. They took to the streets of the nation’s capital and cities such as Boston, New York, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix and Los...