As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring ... The law moved several federal holidays, including Memorial Day, ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — On Monday, Jan. 20, residents in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia will celebrate civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Below is a list of parades, celebrations and ...

President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th Presidential Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington ... is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The government shuts down the third Monday in January to honor Martin Luther King Jr ... on Washington. The holiday honors King's birthday, though it rarely falls on that actual day because ...

Polls conducted by the Washington Post and the New York ... legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

From standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ... “I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others." ...

Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both fall on Jan. 20 this year. Since 1965, federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area are entitled to a holiday on the day a president is ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated annually on the third ... He later attended Booker T. Washington High School, where he was said to be a precocious student. He skipped both the ninth ...

Celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. at a number of uplifting commemorations ... The museum’s community day invites families to participate in a service project ...

Every year around this time, I find myself reflecting on my father's dream for our country—a profound vision for justice, freedom, unity, and peace. Today, the state of his dream seems more ...

As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third ... during a Feb. 6, 1968, speech in Washington, D.C. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ...