Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Eig will discuss his book, “King: A Life” on Monday, Jan. 20, the federal holiday ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on the third Monday of January, but Metro Detroit plans to honor him all weekend. Join ...

Many public institutions are closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, while some private businesses remain open. Here's ...

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, ...

Michigan! It’s a busy day with the inauguration, extreme cold and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. If you’re up prepping for the ...

At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a ...

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

The June 1963 march in Detroit was, at the time, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, with 125,000 ...

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.

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.

A former day care building in Detroit's North Corktown area that fell to abandonment, blight and graffiti has been cleaned up and is now slated to become a café and food hall for the growing ...

According to NBC, the overlap is rare — this just the second time Inauguration Day falls on the same date as MLK Day since it ...