“The day on which we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday will also be one of the darkest and most shameful days in ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Yet, Alabama and Mississippi will instead celebrate Robert E. Lee, a symbol of the confederacy and its ...

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, ...

Column: Today, Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It’s beyond time the state ...

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

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.

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon.

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots ...

Martin Luther King Day was created 30 years ago to honor the civil rights hero and remind us that we all must continue the ...

Community members and elected officials past and present gathered at Glens Falls City Hall Sunday to commemorate and continue ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...