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The nation was honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday - the same day it celebrated the inauguration of the first black president to his second term....

Monday is President Barack Obama's big day, but memories of Martin Luther King Jr. will loom large over the festivities.

Promising that “change can come if you don’t give up,” President Obama, the man who is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the civil rights movement, on Sunday called on Americans to use the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help push for progress in today’s economically tough times.

One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up — on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony eligibility belongs to none other than the leader and conscience of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., portrayed on his last night on Earth by Samuel L. Jackson in “The Mountaintop.”

Tourists and Washingtonians were about to get their first up-close look Monday at the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain says President Obama is "not a strong black man" in the mold of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Martin Luther King memorial will be dedicated in August on the National Mall.

The film, titled Memphis, explores the events that lead up to the civil rights hero's assassination in 1968.

The event organized by the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck was held at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech exactly 47 years ago to the day.

President Obama, speaking today from the pulpit of a church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sometimes spoke, called on the congregation to rally around the spirit that had helped their ancestors pursue a long road to freedom.