A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was an important moment in U.S. history. While some might argue that ...

I still believe in the dream — not as a distant hope, but as a call to action. On Thursday, we’ll march again, this time on ...

I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. A call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was addressing a crowd of 260,000 when gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted, “Tell ’em about the dream, Martin.” King then departed from his prepared text to make an ...

On Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in ...

I think that Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech is very powerful. It is hard for me to imagine what it might be like to only dream of being treated fairly, but I know that there are ...

To mark the historic moment, the WNBA team named after the speech – the Atlanta Dream – is launching a program to carry on ...

CHICAGO -- The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled the first talking Martin Luther King Jr. bobblehead Monday. The bobblehead, which is officially licensed through King's estate, ...

Bernice King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., accused the Black pastor at President Trump’s inauguration of misusing the slain civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Bernice King, ...

Rights leaders of the '60s say MLK legacy lives on in vision, if not execution. Jan. 21, 2013— -- Rev. Joseph Lowery remembers when the 1960s South was burning with racism -- the day a white man ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Surrounded by hundreds of community members, South Bend city leaders held a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday morning to celebrate the completion of the new 40,000 square foot ...