The family of MLK Jr. released a joint statement on Jan. 23, 2025, via X, responding to Trump's pledge to declassify ...

READ MORE: Dexter Scott King, younger son of Martin Luther King ... of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it. Reagan’s signing did not lead other Republicans to follow.

In 1997, while calling for a new trial for Ray, Dexter Scott King visited the frail and dying ... one,” Trump said from the Oval Office as he signed the order. “Lot of people are waiting ...

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Q9: Which U.S. president signed ... Scott King. Q11: What was Martin Luther King Jr.’s profession before becoming a full-time civil rights leader? Answer: He was a Baptist minister in the Dexter ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in ...

It wasn't until late 1983 that federal law was signed recognizing MLK Day and ... and I feel it should have been done a long time ago,'' Dexter King, MLK's youngest son who passed away last ...

7-year-old Yolanda Denise King (1955 - 2007), son, 18 months Dexter Scott King, wife American author, activist, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King (1927 - 2006) and son, 4-year-old Martin ...

It got so bad that President Lyndon Johnson no longer talked to him and many of King’s associates began to distance themselves. May I also say something about Coretta Scott King? There would be ...

Image 1 of 3 American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) poses for a family portrait with his daughter, 7-year-old Yolanda Denise King (1955 - 2007), son, 18 months ...