The second federal holiday of 2026 is here. Jan. 19 marks the day that Americans honor the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. But the ...
Monday, Jan. 19, 2026 is the federal holiday that honors slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The path to honor King on a national level wasn’t an easy one. President Ronald Reagan ...
Nearly 60 years after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and decades after a hard-fought campaign to make his birthday a federal holiday, organizers, city leaders and scholars ...