"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly impossible goals," according to The King Center.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.

Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else you should know.

Donald Trump will celebrate his Inauguration Day today, the same day as MLK Day. How many times have the two days overlapped? Here's what to know.

Organizations across the NYC area are marking MLK Day with special events honoring the civil rights leader's legacy.

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a federal holiday.

MLK and Inauguration Day both fall on Jan. 20, 2025. Publix has 873 locations in Florida. All have regular store hours for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

Tributes across the nation will honor Martin Luther King Jr., a man who inspired many. But who inspired him? It was Charleston SC educator Septima P. Clark.

Cuomo Florida Highway Patrol troopers are searching for a driver responsible for causing a deadly and fiery crash at a Florida intersection on Friday evening. The FDNY responded on Friday morning after an MTA bus was hanging off an overpass near New York City's Henry Hudson Parkway.