This comedy doesn’t scream Fourth of July, but the four main characters are heading to New Orleans on July 4th weekend for ...

California Rep. Lateefah Simon made sure her voice was heard loud and clear at a congressional hearing that appeared to have ...

President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first term but now it's gone.

Now, in the very same week when he dispatches the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles to silence protesters’ righteous cries for justice in the face of his cruel assaults on our immigrant ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. King was a tireless advocate for equality and is best known for his message of peaceful ...

From left - Christian Andrew, CXA Empire brand strategist, and Antonio Palmer, Kingdom Celebration Center bishop, at the 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Dinner (Sloane Brown) ...

The name we recognize today as one of the most powerful voices during the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was originally not named “Martin Luther.” His father decided to change ...

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 ...

Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building on March 25, 1965 in Montgomery ...

In August as he ran for president a third time, Donald Trump compared his crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021 to the throngs who gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech.

When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? The federal government shuts down on the third Monday of every January for the day to honor Martin Luther King Jr. This year, that day is Jan. 20.

In 1983, about 20 years after King's "I Have a Dream" speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.