This year, on Jan. 20, as we honor and participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, it is also inauguration day in the United States. In this moment of political transition ...

January 20, 2025, marks the annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the Author: "Native News Online is one of the most-read publications covering Indian Country and the news that ...

Our nation pauses to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is a day of reflection, but it must also be a day of action. As King himself reminded us, “Life’s most persistent and ...

MLK didn’t dream about a world where we’d sit around feeling sorry for him. He wanted action, movement and change. Holocaust survivors didn’t make it out of the camps to hear you say, “Never again,” ...

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the fight for civil rights.

More than 2,000 people gathered for an annual breakfast Monday in Minneapolis to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th ...

Suzette Hackney talked with Martin Luther King III about the convergence of Inauguration Day with the day of service that honors his father.

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLK Day will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a couple of ...

“I’m glad it occurred on that day because it gives the United States ... we won't win.” Martin Luther King III, the late King's eldest son, prayed with Harris on stage.

Toward the end of Wednesday's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest Capstone Event, Hormel Foods Chairman of the Board, ...

Community Action Partnership of Orange County’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service began more than 20 years ago, when Mark Lowry, director of the OC Food Bank, realized many young people were ...