Martin Luther King Jr. on the power of voting 01:34 The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day , the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon.

Some other southern states at one time also had a joint holiday, but have ended that practice, leaving only Alabama and Mississippi with a single day honoring both King and Lee. Martin Luther King ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — 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 ...

How Martin Luther King Jr. foresaw Mississippi's new Episcopal Black bishop. Story by RNS • 6mo (RNS) — In his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at the March on Washington 61 years ago, ...

How Martin Luther King Jr. foresaw Mississippi's new Episcopal ... King anticipated this day, when Mississippi would be “an oasis of freedom and justice,” but he knew that the fight for ...

Alabama and Mississippi recognize both King and Lee on the ... President Ronald Reagan in 1983 signed legislation naming the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor the ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always scheduled to take place on the third Monday in January. President Ronald Regan signed the bill creating the holiday into federal law in 1983. It was first ...