Martin Luther King

No members of Casper City Council, nor members of the Natrona County Commission apparently attended the event.

Events held as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Days of Dialogue will celebrate diversity, increase awareness of diversity issues, and build a sense of community at the University of Wyoming. This year’s celebration will open with the annual Willena Stanford Community Supper and march on Monday, Feb...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the life of the late civil rights leader with a volunteer project. The president, along with wife Michelle Obama and daughter Malia, joined other volunteers at Browne Education Center in Washington...

In coordination with Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the University of Wyoming's Days of Dialogue, students at the University of Wyoming as well as community members of Laramie will be participating in National Service Day.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C., has officially opened to the public. The memorial will be formally dedicated on Aug. 28 — the anniversary of his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech — and will cap a five-day celebration that could draw as many as 250,000 people.

Today is Friday, March 25, the 84th day of 2011. There are 281 days left in the year. In 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks...

Today is Monday, March 21, the 80th day of 2011. There are 285 days left in the year. In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. Ten years ago: Space shuttle Discovery glided to a predawn touchdown, bringing home the first residents of the international space station...

Scholar, minister, leader, speaker: by the time Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 at age 39, he had already left his mark as a civil rights hero, fighting for what was right and empowering the powerless.