What MLK knew that today’s progressives keep forgetting | CNN
1 day ago · Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights marchers outside the state capitol building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Alabama.
Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call …
1 day ago · Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration. ... Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama also were sworn in …
Martin Luther King III says, on Trump's inauguration, there needs …
12 hours ago · 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 ...
Column: Martin Luther King Jr.'s son has a message for Donald …
1 day ago · In 1997, Bill Clinton was the last president to be sworn in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Clinton noted that 34 years ago, King had shared words at the other end of the National Mall “that ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of ...
5 days ago · On the third Monday of January — close to King’s Jan. 15 birthday — federal, state and local governments, institutions and various industries recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For...
Bernice King on MLK Day and Trump inauguration coinciding: ‘It …
14 hours ago · The coincidence that Martin Luther King Jr. Day lands on the same Monday as Donald Trump’s inauguration isn’t a cause ... The first was during President Bill Clinton’s swearing-in in 1997 ...
The Search for Lessons in Trump’s Return on Martin Luther King …
20 hours ago · The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black leadership and progress toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...
The long struggle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day
5 days ago · Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s reach has only grown in its 42 years. It’s the only federal holiday where you take a “day on, not a day off.” In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law Congressman John Lewis and Sen. Harris Wofford’s legislation making …
Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call …
2 days ago · Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration WASHINGTON ...
Bill Clinton: MLK would be ‘pleased’ - POLITICO
Aug 28, 2013 · Reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the historic “I Have a Dream” speech, former President Bill Clinton said he believes Martin Luther King, Jr. would be “pleased that America is more...