Martin Luther King's son recently joined Kristen Welker on NBC News before Martin Luther King Day, which also happened to be the day of the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration. In the interview, he talked about the significance of the day and voiced the current issues faced by the people of the United States.

In a recent appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Martin Luther King III, the son of the revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., talked about the current state of the nation and how his father’s legacy resonates today.

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day to remember King's life's work and his legacy on civil rights and social justice.

NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Jonathan Eig,