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 ...

Katie Hall passed Congress and was signed into law by former Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday. Bernice King interned in Hall's office ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald ... Gabbard doesn't have jurisdiction over state files but she can order the federal ones released. ‘These have been sitting ...

This Inauguration Day also lands on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is annually observed on the third Monday of January. Like any other federal holiday, you can expect to see some things ...

The federal holiday status of Martin Luther King Jr Day means that several key services ... in line with the Federal Reserve schedule. Both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will remain ...

UPDATE: The city of Kalamazoo cancelled its 3:15 p.m. walk and wreath laying ceremony at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial ... celebrating the federal holiday with a “day on,” encouraging ...

BOSTON — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak ... and windy day, conditions similar ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday on ... the words "In God We Trust." When a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi ...

which also was the first year of the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929; the holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January. Columbus ...

will be closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. There were few major economic releases this week, although Federal Reserve officials likely will be following January consumer sentiment ...

These were the conditions the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described in the letter he ... cuts funding for education and science, fires federal workers by the thousands, disrupts global ...

In 2025, there are 12 instead of the usual 11 federal holidays, although two fell on the same day. Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both fall on Jan. 20 this year. Since 1965 ...