ATLANTA - Two retired New York City Police officers and two Utah tourists are being credited with helping to stop the intentional burning of what Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum describes as a ...

President Jimmy Carter played a pivotal role in preserving Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home and neighborhood by designating it as a national historic site, now a national park. Carter's close ...

A group of bystanders foiled an arsonist attempting to set fire to Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta, police said. The 26-year-old suspect, identified by police on Friday as Laneisha ...

NEW YORK -- Two retired NYPD officers were honored Saturday for helping to catch a woman police say tried to burn down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s childhood home. The house is a federal landmark in ...

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A female suspect was arrested this week after she allegedly dumped gasoline and tried to burn down the birth home of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A female suspect was arrested this week after ...

A woman was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to burn down the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta police said. The woman, Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26, was stopped by two ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year in orde… In May 2011, historian Richard Norton ...

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National ...