Hundreds gathered in Raleigh on Monday for the city’s 45th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., marching through downtown before an ecumenical service in his honor. “Dr. King took America’s ...
The MartinLutherKingJr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length as King’s life. At the time of the first celebration in 1986, M. Carl Holman, president of the ...