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

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

Here is what to know about what businesses and services that will remain open and which ones will take the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring the life and birthday of an icon of America's civil rights movement, is this month. The holiday, observed annually on the third Monday of ...

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

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

Jan. 20 is both a federal holiday and Inauguration Day. Find out if the USPS will be open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and if the mail will run.

Where King's vision was rooted in the American dream, in liberty and justice for all, Trump’s is fueled by pettiness, vengeance, division, and flagrant inequality of justice in action.

Adding to the significance, this year’s Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025, coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday that honors the civil rights leader’s legacy.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification. For those who may simply see the day as government-granted time off for a long we

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a letter opener between his heart and lung. He was taken to Harlem Hospital where his physician, Dr. Aubré D. Maynard, said, “If you had sneezed, your aorta would have been punctured and you would have drowned in your own blood.”