As a holiday, federal offices will be closed and those workers will have a paid day off, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025? This year ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what ... The following day, on April 4, King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel ...

The slain civil rights leader’s son addressed the audience and commented on President Trump’s second term during the annual ...

April 28 (Reuters) - A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther ... King traveled to Memphis that year to lead a march and was assassinated the ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and ...

Memphis Church Key to Martin Luther King's Last ... placards bearing that slogan. King traveled to Memphis that year to lead a march and was assassinated the day before on April 4, 1968.