MLK

A longtime force for civil rights, the Los Angeles Urban League is now celebrating its 100th anniversary. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Monday Jan. 18, 2021. 

Los Angeles honored the civil right leader in different ways this year. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday Jan. 18, 2021

With the coronavirus pandemic leading to a drop in blood donations, officials at Cedars-Sinai Thursday urged residents to consider donating blood as an act of community service for the upcoming Martin Luther King junior Day holiday.

“MLK/FBI,” which IFC Films will release in theaters and on-demand Friday, chronicles one of the darkest chapters in the bureau’s history: the yearslong surveillance and harassment of King. Where others saw a leader of the highest order, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI saw a suspect — a potential communist and a threat to white America.