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

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a non-incumbent president. That changes ...

That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office for his second term as the 42nd president of the United States. Martin Luther King III, the late civil rights leader's son and a ...

Biden, accompanied by his wife, first lady Jill Biden, visited Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston to worship and speak on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday is ...

Martin Luther King III, a civil rights activist and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, spoke to CBS ...

The Brief. President Jimmy Carter played a pivotal role in preserving Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home and neighborhood by designating it as a national historic site, now a national park.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States. On the same day, the nation celebrated its annual tribute to the life of Dr. Martin Luther ...

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.

On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan enacted the King Holiday Bill, establishing the third Monday of January as a federal holiday to honor civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both fall on Jan. 20 this year. Since 1965, federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area are entitled to a holiday on the day a president is ...