Martin Luther King Jr. Day — celebrated on the third Monday of every January — is a federal holiday. The civil rights leader may be most remembered for his iconic "I Have a Dream" address at ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLK Day will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a couple of ...

“I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others." King was shot at 6:05 p.m. on April 4, 1968, on the second-floor balcony of the ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring the life and birthday of one of the most influential civil rights leaders in American history, is this month. Although the holiday is ...

This year Jan. 20 will be both Donald Trump's Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to USA TODAY, this coincidence has occurred only three times in the past, and they were ...

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year. Here’s what to know about Martin ...