~ The service at times turned political with anti-war comments. LITHONIA, Ga. -- When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson didn't attend his funeral, choosing ...

LITHONIA, Ga. – Ten thousand mourners – including four American presidents, numerous members of Congress and many gray-haired veterans of the civil rights movement – said goodbye to Coretta Scott King ...

In Georgia Tuesday, an estimated 10,000 people filled the pews of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta suburb of Lithonia, for the funeral of civil rights pioneer Coretta Scott King.

For Black women of my mother’s generation, Coretta Scott King was like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Following the assassination of her husband, during days of very public mourning, Mrs. King was a ...

Crowds of mourners have paid tribute to Coretta Scott King at the Georgia State House in Atlanta. The widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King, a powerful civil rights activist in her own right, will be ...

Visitors and locals pass “The Embrace” memorial on Boston Common every day where a loving hug between Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King is solidified in bronze. Many people know ...

LITHONIA, Ga. - Four U.S. presidents joined more than 10,000 mourners Tuesday in saying goodbye to Coretta Scott King, praised by President Bush as "one of the most admired Americans of our time." ...

LITHONIA, Ga. — Ten thousand mourners — including four U.S. presidents, numerous members of Congress and many gray-haired veterans of the civil rights movement — said goodbye to Coretta Scott King on ...