This legendary cornerstone has witnessed monumental gatherings and transformative speeches, most notably Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep ...

The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. That monument, dedicated in 1987, was moved to MLK Park in North Avondale in ...

Podcaster Show PlayerWalker, who works at Genesee Elementary School as a cafeteria monitor and previously as a teacher’s aide, stood in about the eighth row in front of the Lincoln Memorial on ...

Whether that was Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous address from the memorial steps Aug. 28, 1963, or the Easter Sunday concert by Marian Anderson in 1939.

In his 2003 book, “The Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation,” Drew D. Hansen wrote about a November 1963 interview King gave to Donald Smith, a graduate student ...

The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Part of the Lincoln Memorial’s vast “undercroft,” which for more than 100 years has been its dark basement, is now halfway through a multimillion-dollar project designed to transform it into ...

The Memorial briefly bore a pretty embarrassing typo. Speaking of well-known speeches, both the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address are carved on the walls of either side of ...

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his 17-minute “I Have a Dream” speech—an oratorical masterpiece that changed King's life, his movement, and the nation at large.

The congressional Jan. 6 committee pegged Trump’s crowd at 53,000 people, about one-fifth of the 250,000 who were estimated to be at King’s famous address from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.