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.

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

This year's MLK Day also falls on Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, marking only the second time in 28 years that these federal observances align. The last time the two dates overlapped was during President Bill Clinton's second inauguration in January 1997, which also included both inauguration events and MLK Day commemorations.

Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else you should know.

This year Jan. 20 will be both Donald Trump's Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to ... his room at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray, 40, later ...

Our community leaders to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude for working hard in the face of enormous obstacles to do the right thing and fight human injustice. Folks who have brought about

Thousands of people braved the cold to learn about King and the Civil Rights movement during a free admission day at the Durham Museum in downtown Omaha.

How you can use repetition, rhetorical questions, and cadence the way MLK did to enhance the effectiveness of your presentations and speeches.

MLK event organizer had to think on the fly after weather altered the annual remembrance at Crispus Attucks going strong in its fifth decade.

The words "I Have a Dream" are historically famous. They defined the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King. But they're just one speech in a long life of brilliance and introspection. Holding a doctorate in Systematic Theology from Boston University,

I called out the superficial nature of many Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations, where sanitized service projects and staged photo-ops replaced a serious reckoning with the radical vision of justice,