Major retailers, including national stores such as Target and Walmart, will be open Monday when communities mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Grocery stores and pharmacies, like Costco, Safeway or ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLK Day will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a couple of ...

Bettmann Archive Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by ...

This year Jan. 20 will be both Donald Trump's Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to USA TODAY, this coincidence has occurred only three times in the past, and they were ...

FILE - A view of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, backdropped by the Washington Monument during the annual MLK wreath-laying ceremony in Washington, Jan. 15, 2024. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana ...

As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third Monday of January in recognition of his birthday on Jan. 15, 1929 — we revisit some of his most ...