As a teenager growing up in Alabama, Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. during a budding civil rights movement. In a letter back, King invited the 18-year-old to join the cause.
NPR's Morning Edition is traveling to Memphis, Tenn., to report on the years since MLK's death. We want to hear from Memphis families to learn how things have changed — or not changed.
Past presidents have honored the civil rights leader's birthday by helping out at libraries or homeless shelters but Preisdent Trump chose to spend the day at his Florida resort.
The Georgia Democratic congressman said in an interview Friday he didn't view Trump as a "legitimate president" amid reports that Russian cyberattacks had intended to influence the elections.
Dabney Montgomery served as a ground crewman with the Tuskegee Airman in Italy in World War II. He joined the civil rights movement when he came home, and protected King during the march from Selma.
A judge's order ends a disagreement over two of the civil rights leader's treasured possessions. King's sons Martin III and Dexter Scott King wanted to sell them. Daughter Bernice King was opposed.
Teachers all over the country are finding ways to talk about the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In one Washington, D.C., classroom, the lessons about race come alive.
