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

The holiday is celebrated each year on the third Monday of January, falling on Jan. 20 this year, which coincides with the ...

It was a Sunday of celebration in the Palmetto State, as thousands of people came together to recognize President Joe Biden ...

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, ...

Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this ...

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

The last word (maybe) on the long-standing belief that lawmakers overlook the western part of the state — and what can be ...

King’s life and work should serve as a guiding light as Americans demand a higher standard of moral responsibility from our leaders.

WHERE...Portions of East Arkansas, North Mississippi, and West Tennessee. * WHEN...Until noon CST today. * IMPACTS...Very ...

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

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.

During Martin Luther King Jr.'s years of public appearances, he visited S.C. 10 times between 1959 and 1967, favoring the Penn Center in as a special retreat.