The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is typically closed every Monday of the year, except this Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It will open at 11 a.m. for a day full of free events.

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

When Americans celebrated the inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1986, his widow, Coretta Scott King, encouraged businesses, banks and stock markets to close.

In 1994, Coretta led a delegation from the King Center to help monitor that country’s first free and fair elections. I wonder now what she might have said about this one.

A year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the publishing company Holt, Rinehart and Winston released Coretta Scott King’s My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr.A senior editor at HRW ...

On view in the museum’s “Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876–1968” exhibition. Congressional Gold Medal for Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Photo credit: ...

A group of people is hoping to procure a headstone for the unmarked grave of Mary Louise Powell, who introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to his future wife, Coretta Scott, in Boston in 1952.

On April 27, The King Center hosted a very special event to unveil The Coretta Scott King Monument. To commemorate what would have been her 96th birthday, family and friends gathered together for ...

"It is the first time that a black woman, Coretta Scott King, who was a leading force, has a memorial acknowledging the work she did as an activist. Coretta picked up the torch and kept the torch ...

“I believe Martin was chosen, I believe I was chosen, and I say to the kids, this family was chosen as well,” Coretta Scott King said in her posthumous memoir, "My Life, My Love, My Legacy ...

In this report from 2006 shortly after Coretta's death, TV9’s Dave Franzman talked to several eastern Iowans who knew Dr.

Efforts from Coretta Scott King, the widow of King, as well as lawmakers, activists, and others, took years. Here’s what you need to know about how Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a holiday ...