There are 24 article(s) tagged Martin Luther King Jr.:

• April 2025

  • Civil Rights Museum opens its ‘most ambitious’ exhibition yet

    “Without Bayard Rustin, there is no ‘I Have a Dream’ at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963.”

    By Elle Perry April 01, 2025

• January 2025

  • Trump orders release of MLK, JFK and RFK assassination records

    Speaking to reporters, President Donald Trump said, “everything will be revealed,” as he signed an executive order to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and other officials. 

    By The Associated Press, Bill Dries January 23, 2025

• January 2024

  • Martin Luther King Jr. ‘speaks’ at virtual MLK Day event

    The National Civil Rights Museum had planned a large celebration to honor what would have been King’s 95th birthday, but as the weather forecast became clear, they realized they would have to pivot. 

    By Michael Waddell January 16, 2024

• April 2023

  • The National Civil Rights Museum to host MLK55 April 4

    The National Civil Rights Museum will remember and honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Tuesday, April 4, with in-person commemorations, virtual events, a new museum exhibition, theatrical performance and live music.

    By Alicia Davidson April 03, 2023

• December 2022

  • Civil Rights pioneer Walter L. Bailey Jr. honored with commissioned portrait

    Bailey is perhaps best known as a lawyer representing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the sanitation workers’ strike of 1968, and also took on several high-profile legal battles to desegregate Memphis schools.

    By Alicia Davidson December 13, 2022

• March 2022

  • The To-Do List: Farmers markets, ‘Remembering MLK’ and a party in the park

    This week, Opera Memphis kicks off 30 Days of Opera, animatronic dinos stomp into the Renasant Convention Center and an art show at Tone explores gender and gender variation.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry March 31, 2022

• February 2021

  • Still the King: Hank Aaron died an American hero, and the champion of the home run

    From humble beginnings to home run king, Hank Aaron, who died on Jan. 22, left a legacy. He even found time for a brief stopover in Memphis and hit a home run in a football stadium.

    By Don Wade February 24, 2021

• June 2020

  • Listening, and learning how to be an antiracist

    There is such a thing as white privilege, no matter the circumstances in which we were raised. My father was raised in dire poverty. And yet he was the first to admit that color never kept him back. He never feared for his life just for being white. He was never denied a bank loan. He was admitted to the University of Texas at a time when blacks were not allowed to enroll.

    By Steve Montgomery June 14, 2020

• May 2020

  • Brooks Ramsey, legendary Memphis minister, dies two weeks after his wife of 75 years

    Ramsey, who pushed his white Baptist congregations to desegregate in the 1960s, spent his last few decades serving as a counselor, teacher and minister in five other denominations. 

    By David Waters May 05, 2020

• February 2020

  • Unmasking racism, every day of the year

    Listen to the prophets Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and today’s prophets, like William Barber II and Bryan Stevenson. Don’t simply say “I am not a racist,” but “I know I’ve got to do more.”

    By Steve Montgomery February 16, 2020

• January 2020

  • Fourth-quarter comeback falls short for Grizzlies in MLK Day showcase

    The Grizzlies' seven-game winning streak ended in a furious but failed comeback against the hot-shooting New Orleans Pelicans. 

    By Chris Herrington January 21, 2020

  • The Early Word: Memphis’ MLK Day, gastric bypass and Tony Allen

    Today is Tuesday, Jan. 21, and the youngbloods over at the Memphis City Council will be talking about removing the residency requirement referendum from the ballot.

    By Mary Cashiola January 21, 2020

  • Volunteers fan out across city to remember MLK through community service

    Memphians volunteered across the Bluff City Monday, Jan. 20, to lend hands and serve the community in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy.

    By Abigail Warren January 20, 2020

  • 2020. Are we ready?

    On this King Day 2020, the 91st birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we do what we do every year. Lift his voice, his ideals, his teachings, his brilliance, his strategic leadership, his love for his family and mankind that put much of what we’re going through and need to change in perspective.

    By Faith Morris January 20, 2020

  • These are ways to get involved in Memphis this MLK Day

    As is customary in Memphis, Martin Luther King Day celebrations are often considered a “day on, instead of a day off.” Here are several opportunities to immerse yourself, friends and family in service and leadership during the holiday.

    By Jared Boyd January 19, 2020

• September 2019

  • Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris receives national honor from Memorial Foundation

    Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris was honored with three others in Washington this week by the Memorial Foundation, the organization that raised the money and installed the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

    By Linda A. Moore September 12, 2019

• August 2019

  • Baxter Leach, iconic sanitation worker, dies

    Baxter Leach, one of the remaining participants of the historic 1968 sanitation workers strike, has died.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 27, 2019

• May 2019

  • Research reveals social factors that influence swimming

    Research reveals social factors that account for large discrepancies in the way people in the U.S. connect with swimming. 

    By Jared Boyd May 29, 2019

• April 2019

  • Jesse Jackson and Stax: The reverend’s largely forgotten link to Memphis

    Rev. Jesse Jackson and Memphis-based Stax Records formed an alliance following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death here that allowed Jackson to use the record label as a platform to spread the spoken word.

    By Jared Boyd April 14, 2019

• February 2019

  • Sanford: Russell Sugarmon blazed a trail for racial change in Memphis

    In his early career, Russell Sugarmon played a key role in Memphis' political evolution, both as a candidate for city office in 1959 and as a lawyer for college students who staged sit-ins at lunch counters and public libraries.

    By Otis Sanford February 21, 2019

  • Nelson: Ernest Withers – flawed but no less a hero

    Ernest Withers, the famous Memphis photographer, was also Ernest Withers the informant, a man whose life illustrates Martin Luther King's description of man's dual nature.

    By Michael Nelson February 21, 2019

  • America has a hate problem

    As our country continues to debate over how we secure our borders, whether or not to build a wall to keep people out of our country, we might consider taking a closer look at those who are born within it. Hate is killing our country.

    By Terri Lee Freeman February 08, 2019

• January 2019

  • Calkins: Grizzlies embarrass themselves on national TV

    The Grizzlies have played nearly 18 years of home games. Their MLK Day loss to the Pelicans was their worst regular-season home loss ever.

    By Geoff Calkins January 22, 2019

  • MLK Sports Legacy Award Symposium reminds that civil rights are a work in progress

    Chris Bosh, Wayne Embry, Candace Parker and Bill Walton were this year's National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award honorees and were part of a symposium before Monday's Grizzlies game. 

    By Don Wade January 21, 2019