Here's a look at the 47th Annual “Original” MLK Jr. Day Parade in photos, captured by Houston Chronicle photojournalists. Parade participants ride on a float waving to the crowd during the ...

In celebration of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 96th birthday, pianist Lara Downes examines how musicians have followed in his footsteps, and faced the cost of taking a stand.

(Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) Anthoney Smith, of Houston, Texas, competes in the bull riding event during the MLK Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo at the National Western Stock ...

SAN ANTONIO – Thousands of marchers participated in the 38th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March in San Antonio on Monday. The march routinely draws tens of thousands, but this year the turnout ...

Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a public vote to do so. In 1987, Gov. Evan Mecham fulfilled a promise to ...