While it might be a frigid day to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., the Theodore Roosevelt National Park is offering a special perk for the holiday. If you’re looking for a winter escape, the Theodore Roosevelt National Park will be providing free entrance tomorrow.
On Wednesday, county officials paid tribute to King, with some describing his legacy as a call to service and others saying there is more progress to be made in race relations.
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 from King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.
MLK Day — which was approved as a federal holiday in 1983 and has been recognized in all 50 states since 2000 — always takes place on the third Monday in January, because it falls near his Jan. 15 birthday. Inauguration Day has been held on Jan. 20th since the passage of the 20th Amendment in 1933.
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day a rare event. Between Martin Luther King Jr. Day being a relatively new holiday (it was made ...
Two other presidents had elections on Monday, January 20, but they were held before Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a holiday. Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in for his third term on Monday ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech
“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.
“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.
Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day!