The holiday is celebrated each year on the third Monday of January, falling on Jan. 20 this year, which coincides with the presidential inauguration.

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

Martin Luther King gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were delivered without a manuscript and with few notes.

On every third Monday in January every year Alabama and Mississippi honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and Confederate General Robert E Lee

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...

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Dr. King's dream for bipartisanship and collaboration is as urgent as ever in the new Trump era, writes John Hope Bryant

Karlous Miller recently found himself at the center of backlash after sharing an AI-generated image of himself with Martin Luther King Jr. at a riot. In the now-deleted X post, the 41-year-old comedian, actor, and rapper jokingly mocked the daughter of the civil rights leader, writing: “Don’t let Bernice see this one.”

The quote was genuine and its attribution to the civil rights leader was accurate. King said the phrase verbatim in at least two speeches delivered in 1956 and 1959. King, who was assassinated in 1968,

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is still being honored in Starkville in many different ways. KMG Creations hosted its 7th annual Sanitation and Environmental Service Worker appreciation lunch at the Needmore Center. There were free food and drinks for the workers of Sanitation and Environmental Services.