George Washington is the only president of the United States whose inauguration took place in New York City, then the ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

MISSOULA — The University of Montana will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a free community lecture by poet Jericho Brown on Thursday, Feb. 6, titled, “The Art of Dreaming: ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ... in making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a nationally observed holiday. On Nov. 2, 1983, Reagan signed a bill making the third Monday in January ...

Martin Truex Sr., the father of former NASCAR champion Martin Truex Jr., has died, Truex and his brother said in a statement. He was 66. "We are devastated by the loss of our father," Martin Jr ...

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an annual federal holiday to honour ... that civil rights activists continued to fight for this bill when President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into ...

THIS WEEKEND. CENTRAL FLORIDA IS CELEBRATING AS WELL THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THOUSANDS CAME TO DOWNTOWN ORLANDO FOR THE BIG MLK DAY PARADE. ORLANDO BOXER OMARI JONES ...

Martin Truex Sr., the father of former NASCAR champion Martin Truex Jr., has died, Truex and his brother said in a statement. He was 66. “We are devastated by the loss of our father,” Martin ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day will coincide with the presidential ... but Congress struck the bill down in 1979 only to pass it four years later. Despite being made into a federal holiday in the ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year in January ... On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law. Since that time, the third Monday ...

FILE - NASCAR driver Martin Truex Jr., left, is congratulated by his father, Martin Truex Sr., in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Autism Speaks 400 auto race at Dover International Speedway in ...