Festivities kicked off Friday with the ALA Gives Back community initiative where attendees volunteered at the Burton Barr Central Library assembling seed packets for the seed library. Later, the ALA ...

Time to stock the bookcase! Learn about the book that won the coveted Newbery Medal and other children's and young adult ...

Andrew Young III, son of civil-rights pioneer Andrew Young II, reflects on the inauguration of President Barack Obama on ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and ...

known as “Daddy King,” was an advisor and confidant, guiding Carter on policies to advance civil rights. Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and other civil rights leaders saw Carter as someone who ...

A former Stanford University history professor who saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and later published the slain civil rights leader's papers at the request of ...

Donna Brazile makes sense of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy as President Biden leaves office and President Trump takes ...

You've no doubt seen countless historical footage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the decades, but you can better get to know the man behind the movement in this Emmy-winning 2018 HBO documentary, ...

L-R-Ossie Davis, Dr. King, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Rev Ralph Ambernathy, Phyllis Brown, Rev. Richard Dixon Jr. photo from ...

He was married to Coretta Scott King and had four children. When was Martin Luther King Jr. killed? King was assassinated in 1968 at age 39 in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray, PBS said.