In today’s 3 Things You Should Know Jeff Johnson reminds us that Monday is the official celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Listen to the audio player…
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, search engine Google changed their homepage doodle to pay homage to the Civil Rights leader who was…
[Courtesy of HuffingtonPost] ATLANTA — 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. A quirk in the calendar pushed President Barack Obama’s public swearing-in in Washington onto the national holiday honoring the slain […]
Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39 leaving behind wife Coretta Scott King and four kids. On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary. He died […]