United States will honor and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr on Monday, January 19. The inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Day was observed as a federal holiday in 1986. Congress later designated the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan. 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. His words and actions have left a lasting mark on ...

Eli Imadali / OPB About 1,000 people brought their signs, their dogs and their kids to march under a crisp winter sun in North Portland on Monday. For many demonstrators, this was their first time ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January. It took 15 years of activism before the day was signed into law as a federal holiday in 1983. We're a little ...

Community leaders and residents gathered in Daytona Beach to observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. People had breakfast while listening to speakers at the Julia T. and Charles W. Cherry, Sr.