Though the holiday is young, this will only be the 25th year that all 50 states recognize it together. Here's what's open and ...

As the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, his daughter is urging people to ...

The president-elect will take the oath of office today in a pared down gathering that was moved indoors because of forecasted frigid temperatures.

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

President-elect Trump on Monday becomes only the third president to take the oath of office on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots ...

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a ...

The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black ...

Civil rights expert john a. powell, author of the recently published book “The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where ...

Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office Sunday in South Carolina, a state that holds special meaning after his commanding win in the 2020 Democratic primary there set him up to achieve his ...