It's one of the most shocking chapters in the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." How the U.S. government wire-tapped his phones and bugged hotel rooms where he stayed. It was all an attempt ...

Associated Press file photo / The Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) and Bishop Julian Smith (left) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. The Trump ...

The Trump administration on Monday released a trove of previously classified documents related to the 1968 assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter has urged Donald Trump to release the full, unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files after thousands of documents surrounding the civil rights activist’s assassination ...

President Donald Trump's administration released the government's files on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. this week, shedding new light on the demise of one of America's most famous ...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. More than a half-century after his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...