WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has filed a brief here April on behalf of the Southern ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance in October 1964, the FBI was furious. Under the leadership of the bureau’s notorious director, J. Edgar Hoover, ...

The Justice Department has asked a federal court to release FBI surveillance records of the Rev. Martin Luther King ... both parties. King’s family has expressed concern over Trump’s plan ...

The FBI, at the time led by J. Edgar Hoover, spied on King and "engaged in covert operations against him," according to Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The US attorney in Washington, DC, arguing the public needs to know the ...

Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This comes after the FBI uncovered thousands of ...

“This is directly from the FBI ... standing as pawns to fulfill a sinister agenda. Author Gerald Posner, who wrote “Killing ...

“For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last ... detailing ...

arguing the public needs to know the “truth” about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., filed a motion to speed up by two years the release of FBI files related to the civil rights icon.