The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King was only 39 when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years—almost a third of ...

The new documentary MLK/FBI explores J. Edgar Hoover’s relentless surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., which would become a complicated boon to historians.

FBI documents from the 1960s allege Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with 40 women and stood by as a friend raped a woman, a new report said.

Last year, an explosive trove of alleged information about the private life of Martin Luther King, Jr. became available for the first time in written FBI reports and surveillance summaries ...

The secret letter was tucked inside the pages of an old book. It had been written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to a top lieutenant, condemning civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It was ...

Sixty years after the FBI marked Martin Luther King Jr. as America’s “most dangerous Negro,” the FBI incorporates the preacher in its new agent training, pledging to honor King by upholding ...

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep ...

Launched in the 1960s, COINTELPRO targeted various civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr, with the aim of disrupting their activities and tarnishing their public image.

The FBI caught backlash Tuesday after tweeting a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. “Today, on the anniversary of his assassination, the FBI honors the life, ...

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 longshot 2024 candidate during a campaign stop in Atlanta on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day told Politico that “there was good reason” for Robert F. Kennedy to let the FBI wiretap ...