In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never ...

Martin Luther King ... President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on November 2, 1983. The holiday was set to be observed on the third Monday in January, near King Jr.'s birthday on January ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Mississippi did the same in 1910. President Ronald Reagan in 1983 signed legislation naming the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor the slain civil rights leader.

What Martin Luther King Jr cited to inspire hope mustn’t be taken as a statement of inevitability. Such sayings foster the ...

Bernice King's work is focused on continuing to promote her parents' legacy of nonviolent social change through policy, ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump invoked the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during his inaugural ... was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 and first observed in 1986.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 ...

The family of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has opposed the decision to release the documents before they have a chance to ...