MLK Memorial Issue: Honoring Dr. King's Legacy in the DMV

This 1967 photograph shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (right) and his son Marty with the Rev. Walter Fauntroy in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (Courtesy photo/dcstatehoodyeswecan.org)

What Would MLK Do to Address Black Mental Health?

by Micha Green and Lindiwe Vilakazi January 14, 2024March 7, 2024

Black Experience

Prominent Civil Rights Leaders Share Insights on MLK’s Perspective on Middle East, Ukraine, Trump

by Stacy M. Brown January 14, 2024January 17, 2024

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, "I Have a Dream," speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C.

Faith

What Would MLK Preach Today?

by Hamil R. Harris January 14, 2024January 17, 2024

Ty Hobson-Powell, founder and executive director of Concerned Citizens of D.C., shined brightly as a youth leader, just like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience

A Conversation with Ty Hobson-Powell About Martin Luther King’s Legacy

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. January 14, 2024January 17, 2024

The Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president of the Hip Hop Caucus, rallies the crowd at a demonstration against major banks' fossil fuel investment in downtown D.C. in March 2023. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Environmental Justice From a Place of Faith: Christian Leaders Reflect

by Kayla Benjamin January 14, 2024January 17, 2024

MLK Memorial Issue, Special Editions

2013 MLK Supp

by WI Web Staff January 20, 2023January 30, 2023

Students from Langley Elementary, C.W. Harris Elementary, School Within A School at Goding Elementary School, Hyde-Addison Elementary School and Stuart-Hobson Middle School channeled the spirit of King, Presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt in their presentations. (The Washington Informer)

DCPS, National Park Service Host Speech Readings at Lincoln Memorial

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

Demonstrators hold a casket symbolic of all the lives lost in their community due to environmental racism. The rally started at Freedom Plaza and headed to the White House part of the People vs. Fossil Fuels Campaign on Oct. 25, demanding a cessation of fossil fuel projects. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)

Three Ways Dr. King’s Legacy Influences the Environmental Movement

by Kayla Benjamin January 18, 2023August 16, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, "I Have a Dream," speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C.

Winners of the 2023 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest

by WI Web Staff January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

A leader in housing reform, Rep. Emmanueal Cleaver (D-Missouri), UPO Annual MLK King Breakfast keynote speaker, points to the two-room shack in Texas where he was raised without running water, indoor plumbing or electricity. (D.R. Barnes/The Washington Informer)

Remembering King Through Prayer

by Denise Rolark Barnes and Micha Green January 18, 2023January 18, 2023