Hope and celebration are words that innately describe the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a day about reflection ...

King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' is not just a seminal document of American civil rights. It's a masterpiece of ...

The president-elect returned to Washington over the weekend, holding a rally for supporters. Follow along for the latest ...

It took a long political effort to make the King Holiday commemoration a federal law. ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, ...

Throughout the prior 59 presidential inauguration ceremonies there have been moments of celebration and of various mishaps.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification. For those who may simply see the day as government-granted ...

I am a civil rights baby, born into agitating when my mother sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Huntsville, Alabama, ...

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive ...

Texas officially recognized MLK Day in 1991. Today, it remains the only federal holiday designated as a national day of ...

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

Professional basketball has long evoked the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bill Russell stood with the civil rights ...