Martin Luther King III on Trump's inauguration 05:59. 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 ...

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 Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

In some ways it’s a sick irony – the juxtaposition of Trump being inaugurated on Monday, the same day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. King was a champion for civil and human rights.

By Mekhi Abbott Special to the AFRO [email protected]. This year’s recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the 39th anniversary of the national observance of the federal holiday.

From left: Martin Luther King III, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yolanda King. Marvin Koner/Corbis/Getty My mom, the incomparable Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, would sometimes tell me ...

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we remember not only his iconic speeches but the depth and radicalism of his work. Often sanitized in mainstream memory ...