The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

The parade will start at 10 a.m. that day at Raymond Hobbs Street ... The celebration will take place on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive between Alice Street and Walker Street.

The Fort Worth Martin Luther King Jr. Day in North Texas was previously rescheduled because of weather. Republicans try to go it alone on government funding as shutdown deadline nears Dave Ramsey ...

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 ...

Eunice Flowers holds a copy of her book ‘Maya and Xavier’s Adventures in Little Haiti,’ which she wrote to teach children about the Black history of the historic Miami neighborhood.

The world discovered that Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King helped cover ... find a place for her kids to go to school. “One day Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if ...

Michael King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His father, Michael King Sr, and mother, Alberta King, grew up involved in the church. Alberta’s father was a minister and Michael Sr ...

The 40th annual Kingdom Day Parade celebrating the work of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was held on Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. and Crenshaw boulevards in Los Angeles.

The proposal failed on Tuesday, but another vote is expected later this month by Miami-Dade County commissioners.

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 ...