The wonderful singer Mahalia ... his funeral, because it was the last song he requested before his death. “We want to do a tune written for today, for this hour, for Dr. Martin Luther King.

I dance on the couch, my feet sinking in and out of the springy pillows. I can’t help myself. I let my body move to the voice ...

The late Mahalia Jackson sang it at King’s funeral in Atlanta in 1968 ... Howard, chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission, was in Denver to attend a Women’s Day program ...

On Saturday, the Jackson County Voters league gathered in the Scottsboro Rec Com for their annual MLK Memorial Day luncheon. The keynote speaker for the event ... had not gotten the reception that he ...

The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A free tribute concert in Wilmington, Delaware this weekend will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr ... moving piece is Mahalia Jackson’s “Precious ...