Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day ... rights leader with a speech at an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

This Inauguration Day also lands on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is annually observed ... a paid day off for federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area.) Because MLK Day is a federal ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

(DC News Now) — This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, drivers in the Leesburg area ... head to DC News Now | Washington, DC.

The first breakfast gathering in Columbus to honor King occurred in 1986, which also was the first year of the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday ... who was in Washington on Monday ...

Martin Luther King III, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley spoke at the 60th anniversary of Martin ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ... “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” King repeatedly warned against the ...

On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what ... The following day, on April 4, King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel ...