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 ...

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 ...

I don’t pretend to have the answer, but we could do worse than look to the experience of Martin Luther King Jr. during an ...

MLK Jr. first delivered the speech in Rocky Mount in November 1962, nine months before the famous national mall speech.

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 ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Here’s how the final day of his life ...

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

He isn’t famous, though arguably he should be. “J.T. was a personal assistant to Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy,” ...

The eldest son of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivered the keynote address ...

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the ...

As a student of King’s political philosophy, I find such a comparison both abhorrent and nonsensical, Joel Bowman says.