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Stevie Wonder Teamed Up With Major Celebrities for a Powerful Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

By Melissa Locker

Barack Obama and John Lewis Discuss the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

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How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Children Are Carrying on His Legacy 50 Years After His Death

By Katie Reilly

Dodge Criticized for Super Bowl Ad Using MLK's Voice

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Jimmy Kimmel Got People on the Street to Believe Donald Trump Has a 'Twitter War' With Martin Luther King Jr.

The results are cringe-worthy

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Lessons for 2018 From One of America’s Most Tumultuous Years

Many of the questions and concerns of 1968 remain strikingly relevant today

By Katie Reilly

James Baldwin, The 'Spiritual Historian'

A new edition of Baldwin's 1963 classic pairs his text with photographs by Steve Schapiro

By Lily Rothman and Liz Ronk

People Are Sharing This Bobby Kennedy Speech About MLK After the Dallas Shootings

Kennedy Eulogized King in 1968—many believe it's relevant to today's violence

By Daniel White

12 Powerful Photos of Martin Luther King Jr.

From the Montgomery bus boycott to the March on Washington

By Eliza Berman

6 Open Letters That Changed the World

Words that changed the course of history

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Watch Some of the Most Inspiring Nobel Peace Prize Speeches in History

The Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes given annually

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See Julian Bond's Life in Photos

The longtime civil rights leader and board chair of the NAACP died at 75. He was considered a symbol and icon of the 1960s civil rights movement

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Why MLK Was Jailed in Birmingham

King wrote the famous Letter From a Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963

By Lily Rothman

9 Moving Reactions to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 Assassination

TIME readers wrote to the magazine in the aftermath of the 1968 crime

By Lily Rothman

Inside the Home Where MLK Planned the Selma-to-Montgomery March

The home remains today just as it did 50 years ago

By Victor Luckerson/Selma, Ala.

Arkansas Will Carry On Celebrating Robert E. Lee Day On MLK Day

A bill would've moved the commemoration of the Confederate general to November

By Josh Sanburn

How MLK Day Became a Holiday

Legislation designating the national holiday was passed in 1983

By Lily Rothman

Break Down the Wall That Separates Us From the 'Other America'

We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal justice system

By Sen. Rand Paul

MLK, Civil Rights and The Fierce Urgency of Now

What can the Civil Rights Movement and President Johnson's "Great Society" teach us about legislative action today?

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What Martin Luther King Was Like as a Child

Remembering his youth on what would have been his birthday

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