Read our new brochure online! Learn about all aspects of the King Institute including the King Papers Project, the Liberation Curriculum, and bios on Scholar in Residence, Clarence B. Jones and Director Clayborne Carson.

California teachers selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded King Digital History Project created model lesson plans on Dr. King and the African-American freedom struggle, using the King Institute's documentary resources and professional development training.

The King Institute's Director will teach a course at Morehouse College this fall based on that institution's vast collection of King's personal papers and featuring in-class interviews with King associates and veterans of the civil rights movement. Read more

Noted historian John Hope Franklin, a member of the National Advisory board of the King Papers Project/King Institute, died on March 25 at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.

This week Dr. King’s son, Martin Luther King III, will commemorate his parents’ historic journey to India. Organized by the U.S. Department of State, King III will be accompanied by members of U.S. Congress, including John Lewis, the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington; Clayborne Carson, editor of King’s papers; and jazz musician Herbie Hancock. The Hindu, India's national newspaper, reflects on this historic event.

CBS Producer Cesar Chavez visited Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute 26 January to interview Director Clayborne Carson as part of a series of thirty minute public service announcements in commemoration of February's rich history month. The interview will air on CBS 5 and the CW44, Cable 12 through the month of February.

Dr. Clayborne Carson, Professor of History and founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, spoke on "The Global Vision and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr." to a packed Wilkins Moot Courtroom on February 4 as the UC Davis School of Law launched the new California International Law Center at King Hall (CILC).

This year at the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration in San Francisco attendees were asked to answer the question, "What would Dr. King want to say to Barack Obama?" The following quotes are some of the answers we received.

Join LC and Facing History & Ourselves from 4:30 - 8:30 pm on Feb 4th, 2009 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco for a teachers' workshop on Eyes on the Prize.

The Ahimsa Center at CSU Pomona invites K-12 educators to participate in a interdisciplinary residential summer institute called Journeys of Nonviolence: Gandhi and King.

Tuscaloosa residents will have more than one civil rights milestone to celebrate next week, when Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed and the country inaugurates its first black president. Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the King Papers Project at Stanford University, will share his views on the global impact of King’s work. Carson, who is compiling King’s speeches, notes and papers into a 14-volume collection, will provide insight into King’s lesser-known works.

In his article published in the L.A. Watts Times and Times of India, Stanford history Professor, Clayborne Carson, discusses Obama's link with King and Gandhi. Carson's article honors the synchronicity between the fiftieth anniversary of King's pilgrimage to India, and the inauguration of President Obama.

Morehouse College announced that it has digitized and archived three-quarters of a major collection of the civil rights leader's works, that the city of Atlanta acquired in 2006. Stanford history Professor, Clayborne Carson expresses his excitement over the public project. Read more . . .

In 1961 John Lewis volunteered for the first Freedom Rides coordinated by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and CORE. Lewis suffered a severe beating by a group of whites during the rides. In February 2009 former Klansman Elwin Wilson appologizes to Lewis for the beating that occured nearly fifty years ago.

On the final Sunday before Election Day, black Bay Area voters reflected on their feelings as the nation sits on the precipice of history.

Austin Peay State University will host a portion of the 62nd Annual NAACP State Convention and Civil Rights Conference on September 27 at the APSU Morgan University Center.

Members of the federal arts commission expressed satisfaction with changes to the King memorial statue which smoothed away wrinkles in King's brow and added a slight smile.

The Indian Worker's Congress reached Day 21 of their hunger strike, the longest Mahatma Gandhi ever fasted. The workers are protesting their treatment at the hands of Signal International.

A doctor in Howard's Class of '68 has followed MLK's lessons

Viewing original papers written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in King's home city of Atlanta, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the renowned leader, saying that the values he lived and died for are shared by the United Nations.

Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of an acclaimed trilogy on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

In an opinion article written for The Wall Street Journal, Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s former legal advisor, says that King would have been disheartened by the anti-Semitism espoused by many of today's most prominent Black leaders.

The sociologist Jonathan Rieder examines Martin Luther King’s oratorical gift.

Obama gives a powerful, landmark speech on race.

This play about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision to oppose the war in Vietnam resonates with Obama's stand against the unpopular war on Iraq.

“The Man in Room 306” challenges the audience to confront viscerally one of the most tragic moments in our country’s history: the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Taylor Branch, a prominent King biographer, discusses the assassination of King 40 years later.

The 2008 presidential candidates all commented on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.