“It’s an eight-person hugging tree,’’ he said, referring to the number of people it would take holding hands to encircle it. It’s estimated to be 100 to 120 years old. The Pibel Lake ...

50,000 gather for commemoration of 30-foot statue on National Mall President Obama says Dr King 'stirred our conscience' and made our Union 'more perfect' Credits the civil rights leader with ...

McCool, having played Young Christopher in both Oklahoma and Atlanta, begins the show with a pure and plaintive voice, and the scenes between him and his mother are tender and heartfelt.

A young man was found with multiple gunshot wounds at Grady Memorial Hospital on Tuesday evening, after a shooting incident that occurred on Martin Luther King Junior Drive SW in Atlanta.

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the voice of the movement. In 1955, he served as the spokesman for the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1957, he was elected the ...

23, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps after a man was crushed inside a tent as a bulldozer ...

Traci Kelley and her husband, Mike, had never been without a dog in their marriage—until last weekend when their beloved Gadget died. In his memory, they placed a metal dachshund statue outside their ...

Throughout his life, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had more detractors than allies. MLK became a global hero after his assassination in 1968, and President Ronald Reagan added to ...

A statue of John Batman, who founded the country’s second-largest city but was also involved in the killing of Aboriginal people, was found sawed in half on Sunday morning in Melbourne.

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump’s executive order Thursday to declassify the records of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. has been met with a mixed response. Channel 2’s Richard ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The assassination of famed civil rights leader and Atlanta native Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has for decades been shrouded in conspiracy. The world will know more ...