Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

Lee Day on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day soon. Only four states still honor the Civil War dead with a day off for public workers ...

Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, visited the United States just once, nearly 10 years ago, in September ...

Today is the 55th Earth Day celebrated in the United States.It’s held every ... newest federal holiday in the U.S., after Martin Luther King Jr. Day (recognized in 1983) and Juneteenth ...

Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations are old-fashioned, just not for Americans.

So when she found herself in the Vatican on March 12, 2018, in a private, quiet moment with Pope Francis, the daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. asked ... in the United States, which King ...

Thousands of Virginians turned out for the national "day of action" protesting the Trump administration in Staunton, Charlottesville and Richmond.

A few dozen women gathered at a posh Miami brewery on a recent evening to listen to U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart outline the ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.