“Our father lived a life of conscience,” his family said in a statement ...

Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. NPR's Talk of the Nation ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Aug. 28, 1963. (AP ...

Clarence B. Jones, MLK’s lawyer and speech co‑writer, has died at 95. Bay Area educator and Medal of Freedom recipient.

A key figure in the civil rights movement, Jones spent the last two decades of his life teaching at Stanford and the ...

An attorney for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped smuggle out snippets of King’s writing that became the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” has died. When King was behind bars at the ...

(Annie Lane is off this week. The following column first appeared in 2023.) Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please enjoy this excerpt from one of the most famous ...

Clarence B. Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped pen his famous “I ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please enjoy this excerpt from one of the most famous American speeches ever made. “I have a dream that one day this nation will ...

Clarence B Jones was Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr's lawyer, speechwriter, and close friend from 1960 until his assassination ...