Tchanori Kone's words won her the first place at a Houston speech competition. — -- A fifth-grade Texas girl paid tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nearly 50 years after his death with ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A first-of-its-kind competition in Chicago featured 4th and 5th grade Chicago Public School students who had to write and present original speeches with one question in mind: What ...

Third-graders Ryan Kelly, left, and Jacob Taffera lead the Wycallis Elementary School community in singing “Teaching Peace” to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is ...

That one day Red Hills of Georgia. No celebration of the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior would be complete without hearing part of his famous I Have *** Dream speech. And it ...

Grove Elementary School fifth-grader Ashley Wright celebrates the same birth date as Martin Luther King Jr. and in her opinion "it's cool." Wright and other fifth-graders in Cheryl Mackey's social ...

A national holiday honoring King was enacted in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. After some debate among Idaho state legislators about giving state employees another holiday and over King’s impact, in ...