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

At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a ...

Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...

According to NBC, the overlap is rare — this just the second time Inauguration Day falls on the same date as MLK Day since it ...

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ...

It's an easy decision, for me. Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification.

Banks will be shutting down on January 20, Inauguration Day, because of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

During Martin Luther King Jr.'s years of public appearances, he visited S.C. 10 times between 1959 and 1967, favoring the Penn Center in as a special retreat.

HONORING MLK - Visitors can celebrate the life and legacy of the civil rights icon at the museum in Downtown Memphis with a ...

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech April 3, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, he ...

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