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 ...

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.

DEAR READERS: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please enjoy this excerpt from one of the most famous American speeches ever made. “I have a dream that one day this nation will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please enjoy this excerpt from one of the most famous American speeches ever made. “I have a dream that one day this nation will ...

Each year on the third Monday in January, Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered with a federal holiday. The date was chosen to coincide with the civil rights leader's birthday, which falls on Jan. 15.