With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration falling on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, members of the Black community in Boston said the coincidence generates some complicated feelings for them.
Donald Trump is set to make history as only the second president to be inaugurated on MLK Day. Can you guess the first?
Trump is only the third president to be sworn in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Due to the particulars of the calendar and the Constitution, the two events won't overlap again until 2053.
Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Here's what to know about MLK Day, Inauguration Day and why the two are being observed on the same day in 2025.
The federal holiday was first observed on January 20, 1986. There have been nine presidential inaugurations since then. Two have fallen on MLK Day: Bill Clinton’s second inauguration in 1997 and Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013 (which took place on January 21 because the 20th was a Sunday).
In 2013, the last time a presidential inauguration was held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bernice King made sure her father was present.
Barack Obama can also be counted as having a half-Martin Luther King Jr. Day Inauguration. For his second term Inauguration, Jan. 20 was on a Sunday, so there was a private ceremony held on Sunday ...
Martin Luther King ... when MLK Day is observed. When was the last time MLK, Inauguration Day were on the same day? The last time the two key days coincided was in 2013 when Barack Obama took ...
King delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, which became a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Since Monday is a federal holiday, all federal, state, and local government offices will be closed.
With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration falling on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, members of the Black community in Boston said the coincidence generates some complicated feelings for them.
Monday marks a very different legacy, as well, that of Martin Luther King Jr., whose words and actions more than six decades ago on the opposite end of the Mall helped usher in a freer, more just and equal society for all Americans.