Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

Valentine’s Day, July 4th and Halloween all land on a Friday in 2025, making for at least a few fun holiday weekends to look forward to. Here’s a look at major and federal holiday is in 2025 and what day of the week they land on. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the next federal holiday celebrated in the U.S., and it will fall on Monday, Jan. 20.

SummarySpecial Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Lincoln Library to feature recital by local talent, music, and blood drive The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has announced a special celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the Arizona battle over MLK Day.

Hope and celebration are words that innately describe the holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is a day about reflection, discussion and community. The Greater Bennington Peace and

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation will be celebrated at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church.

In the good ole days—and I guess that statement dates me—national holidays and national recognition days came few and far between. January would pass by without much fanfare, and Abraham

Eleanor Roosevelt posing in the Sally Milgrim gown that she wore to her husband Franklin’s second inaugural festivities in 1937.

Monday marks a very different legacy, as well, that of Martin Luther King Jr., whose words and actions more than six decades ago on the opposite end of the Mall helped usher in a freer, more just and equal society for all Americans.

For some, the holiday is just that — time off from work or school. But, King’s family and others carrying on his legacy of equality, justice and non-violent protest want Americans to remember that thi

On the third Monday of January — close to King's Jan. 15 birthday — federal, state and local governments, institutions and various industries recognize