As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored on Monday at events around the nation. The Civil Rights icon, whose work to end segregation and racism ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLK Day will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a couple of ...

This year Jan. 20 will be both Donald Trump's Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to USA TODAY, this coincidence has occurred only three times in the past, and they were ...

Houston will honor Martin Luther King Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights leader, on what would have been his 96th birthday, with events over the weekend and on Monday, Jan. 20.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and minister known for being the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis ...