Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the federal holiday honoring slain Civil Rights leader. Two U.S. states, including Mississippi, also ...

While most of the U.S. observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day, two states also recognize Robert E. Lee with a combined state holiday. Is AL one of them?

But alongside honors for the slain civil rights leader is recognition for Civil War general Robert E. Lee. Alabama and Mississippi are the only states that combine King and Lee in the same holiday. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is here. The holiday is held near the slain civil rights leader’s birthday on Jan. 15, 1929, each year.

People across the country are honoring the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with his daughter Bernice King describing the holiday as a "saving grace" amid deep political ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Entergy joined forces with Louisiana Blue, Healthy Blue, the Pack Shack, and Extra ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the St. Andrew’s Lower School held a special big chapel service. The Rt. Rev. Dorothy Wells, current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi,  led the ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - More than 30 volunteers from Mississippi Power, the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain, and AARP cleaned up the Turkey Creek area of Gulfport on Monday as part of an ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis can both be seen on the right side of the frame. The following feature is excerpted ...