The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he ...

In this April 3, 1968 file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is pictured walking across the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was assassinated the next day at the hotel. Peter Johnson ...

As a historian of religion and civil rights, University of Colorado Colorado Springs Professor Paul Harvey writes that while King has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to ...

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ATLANTA -- The FBI had long been watching the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. They bugged his hotel rooms, tracked his movements and scrutinized his relationships -- all in the name of what some in the ...