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Note: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home is also on-site, but it is closed through November 2025 for refurbishment. Most agree a trip to Atlanta must include time spent at this historical park.
This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...
A deadly shooting occurred around 8:10 p.m. on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW in northwest Atlanta. The victim, a man found unresponsive with a gunshot wound, was pronounced dead at the scene.
President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first term but now it's gone.
David Mitchell, the Preservation Center’s guy, noted this month marks the 50th anniversary of saving the Fox Theatre. Back in the 1970s, telephone giant Southern Bell wanted to knock down the Fox to ...
Located in The Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden on the grounds of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Woolfalk said, “I was so honored when ...
Hungry during a particularly long layover? Believe it or not, you can enjoy a meal loved by civil rights activist Martin ...
The artist — whose activism in the Civil Rights movement began with his childhood in the South and continued in Oregon, where ...
The Georgia branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans says plans for the exhibit at Memorial Hall violate state law.
Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Tuesday night. Atlanta Police said officers responded to a person shot in the 2400 block of the street ...