Monday, January 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, the holiday coincides with President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, though the majority of ...

There will also be an extra emphasis on King’s ideas and words about leadership and equality, versus the ideas and words of the incoming President Donald Trump, whose inauguration falls on Marti ...

Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for a federal holiday to honor the civil rights leader.