More than a half century ago, on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took the stage at Mason Temple, a Black church in ...

The Arden Theatre Company is staging a powerful work from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright about the life and legacy left ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what was to be his final speech, telling a rally ...

What you need to know about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Over a half-century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support and bring attention to a strike by more than ...

The setup: The 2009 London première of American playwright Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop made her the first black woman to receive the Olivier Award for Best New Play. The show moved to Broadway in ...

Plus, a production that combines two works from playwright Amiri Baraka and a show about a 40-year-old getting a driver's license.

New walkways, landscaping and a gateway plaza featuring a famous Martin Luther King Jr. quote are all part of a $6.8 million expansion of the Indianapolis park where Robert Kennedy made a historic ...

"Dr. King made it rather clear that the cause that we were fighting for was not only worth living for, but it was worth dying for, if need be," said Fred Gray, the lawyer who help ...