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.

Family and others carrying on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of equality, justice and nonviolent protest want Americans to remember that Monday's holiday is really about helping others.

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.

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

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 honor of MLK Day, read the most famous Martin Luther King Jr. quotes. Find powerful words and messages on justice, freedom, love and equality.