What role did music play in getting Martin Luther King Jr. Day to become a holiday? According to the National Constitution Center, in 1981, Stevie Wonder released "Happy Birthday to You," making a ...

“Happy Birthday,” to rally support. In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared ...

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Or should we say happy Inauguration Day? In 2025, it's both. The third Monday of January is the MLK Day federal holiday. President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day! I thought it would be a good time to find some impactful quotes from presidential inaugural speeches and ...

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 ...

And I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about ... President Ronald Reagan signed a bill in 1983 establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday. First celebrated in 1986, the ...

“I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others." King was shot at 6:05 p.m. on April 4, 1968, on the second-floor balcony of 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 ...

What role did music play in getting Martin Luther King Jr. Day to become a holiday? According to the National Constitution Center, in 1981, Stevie Wonder released "Happy Birthday to You," making a ...