Martin Luther King Day

NBC New York’s Romney Smith reports.

Martin Luther King said whatever affects one, affects all. The Covid crisis makes this clear in new ways, as a new generation of Black community leaders rises.

A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations

Yolanda Renee King declares a call to action to mark Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday: “Although you may not be old enough to vote, you are the future.”

Some relatives of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are spending the holiday named for him in conservative-leaning Arizona to mobilize support for languishing federal voting rights legislation.