But the challenge for Obama is how to make that change a reality. Facing a logjam in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a Senate barely more friendly, Obama has been largely unable ...

President Obama called on Americans to keep working toward making Martin Luther King's dream a reality on Wednesday, saying, "The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't ...

(The Root) — In my grandmother’s Arkansas home hangs a portrait of President Barack Obama with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the portrait has written beneath the two men “We Have a Dream; ...

According to Timothy Lake, director of the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies at Wabash College and a leading scholar on King, his "I have a dream" speech is the best one to compare to Obama's view ...

News The Speech: President Obama Celebrates Martin Luther King Attending church services with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha, president Barack Obama remembered Martin Luther King: ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is claiming his place in Martin Luther King's 50-year-old dream, holding himself up as a symbol of the change King envisioned. But he also pointed to the nation's ...

Talk about a 'Dream' date! This Monday, Jan. 21, is twice-starred for the nation's African-Americans, who join all Americans in recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration of the ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. made his most famous speech during the Great March on Washington in 1963, Barack Hussein Obama was 2 years and 24 days old. Obama was only 6 when King was assassinated in ...