A list of events to honor Martin Luther King Jr. around the federal and West Virginia holiday on Jan. 20, 2025.

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday honoring the civil rights icon, falls on Jan. 20, 2025. Here's what to know.

King was assassinated in 1968 at age 39 in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray, PBS said. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday in the U.S. It is observed annually on the third Monday ...

But then the investigation turned to James Earl Ray, a destitute, middle-aged fugitive from Missouri State Penitentiary, ...

Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming holiday, why we celebrate it and why it's more than just a long-weekend ...

On the third Monday of January — close to King's Jan. 15 birthday — federal, state and local governments, institutions and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his “I Have a Dream” speech, quotes, holiday, kids, ...

A headline from the April 5, 1968, edition of the Kennebec Journal captured some of how Augusta-area residents were feeling ...

Born on January 15, 1929, Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have celebrated his 91st birthday today.

These monuments to King must not be the only ones. I had the pleasure of being honored at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury as the new publisher and editor of the Bay State Banner, along with my ...

James Earl Ray, 40, later confessed to the crime and received a 99-year prison sentence. King was 39 at the time of his death. If he were alive today, King would be turning 96 this month.