The ceremony marks the community’s effort to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Back in April, the Odessa City ...

Monday, Jan. 20, marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday on which many people, including students, are off. It's also a day when many may reflect on the civil rights leader and his ...

I walked up and down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard showing people two renderings of a proposed 25-story tower that would ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and minister known for being the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis ...

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

But Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on the third Monday in January due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law in 1968.

Updates on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. A minister and activist, Marting Luther King Jr. was the leader of the American civil rights movement, starting in 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

Texas, on June 15, 2024. A copy of the memo began circulating on social media Wednesday morning. The affected events, per the memo, which is dated Jan. 28, 2025, include: Martin Luther King, Jr.

His enduring legacy was memorialized when Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday bill in 1983, and again during the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in 2011.