Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else ...

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the ...

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a ...

Though the holiday is young, this will only be the 25th year that all 50 states recognize it together. Here's what's open and ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, honoring Dr. King’s fight for racial equality ...

Martin Luther King Day is the celebration of the civil rights activist's birthday that falls in January. However, the federal ...

Sitting in his Atlanta home office with his wife and fellow civil rights activist Arndrea Waters King, Martin Luther King III ...

Politicians and government departments throughout Tennessee have been posting messages and quotes for Martin Luther King, Jr.

More than 50 years after he died at age 39 from an assassin’s bullet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endures as one of ...

This year's MLK Day also falls on Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, marking only the second time in 28 years that these federal observances align. The last time the two dates ...