Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day. In 1912 ... In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

Pope Francis addressed Congress in 2015 and reminded us that day of our common responsibility to the least of these, focusing ...

A historical-fiction, musical theater presentation by Infecting Change Theatre Company will be performed in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. After the performance, there will be a ...

By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had ...

Her appeal to the president was part of an advocacy for marginalized communities that took root as a Christian missionary in ...

"These protests are demonstrations to the powers that be that we are here, we are angry, and we are willing to step out and ...

Francis' first state visit to America—which included a stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City—took place in September 2015, just three months after Trump descended the golden escalator at ...