On the third Monday of the month, federal, state and local governments, institutions and various industries recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

Visitors participated in a number of activities, such as a scavenger hunt, and a special viewing of Dr. King's famous "I have a dream" speech.

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

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day ... to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865. “Much has been given ...

He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a great American ... institutions and various industries recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For some, the holiday ...

Dr. King famously said ... but it also planted the seeds of a new beginning. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican president, ran on an anti-slavery platform (in actually, it is an oddly little known ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND SECTION Later that day, the National Council of Negro Women, Staten Island Section, organized a transformative Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service in collaboration with several ...

Dozens of people from the greater Farmington area attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Day service. FARMINGTON — Bishop James Ruggieri, the 13th Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, guest speaker ...

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.) Jacksonville's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, which was postponed Monday because of cold weather, has been ...

Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents detailing the FBI’s investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s 1968 assassination, the civil rights ...