It’s expected 75,000 people will rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to mark the 60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.

More than 1,000 religious leaders are expected to attend the “One Thousand Ministers March for Justice” rally on Monday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and rally against President Donald Trump’s leadership in light of the deadly rally in Charlottesville.

Public feedback showed a desire for the renovated building to tell the civil rights leader’s story.

After concerns were raised about sandblasting, the NPS has found a solution.

The writing was certainly on the wall for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library before its Sunday hours were last-minute scramble late last weeksaved on Friday. But big budget challenges remain for the city’s library system.

With no time to spare, the D.C. Public Library announced today that the money needed to keep Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library open on Sundays had been found.

Chinese sculptor Lei Yi Xin, the chief sculptor of the soon-to-be-unveiled Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, has now finished his work on the piece, located near the Tidal Basin. Oh, did we mention that Lei sculpted the 28-foot memorial from memory?

For the second time in his term, President Obama attended Sunday MLK Jr. holiday weekend services at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Northwest, often called the national cathedral of black Methodist churches. According to the Washington Post, despite that the Metropolitan AME church currently meets in the Madison hotel’s ballroom while extensive renovations are taking place, extra efforts were put into preparing the sanctuary for the President’s visit. Unlike last year, when Obama…

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Presidential Films at the Smithsonian The big weekend is finally here. And your tiny one-bedroom is about to be overrun with family, friends, and some person who messaged you on Facebook two weeks ago who you think you remember going to high school with. The only thing you know for sure you’re all doing is walking…

It’s hard to look down H Street NE and imagine that it was ever a bustling corridor. But along with Fourteenth Street NW and Seventh Street NW, it represented the center of the District’s African American commercial presence in the years during which the U.S. struggled to overcome the legacy of state-sponsored segregation. It was the events of April 4, 1968 that decimated all three of those streets and the African American businesses that anchored…