The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King 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 honor of ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WKRG) — Jackson-George Regional Library officials have announced that all of their locations will be closed on Jan. 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always scheduled to take place ... When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday ...

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature, Jackson as the headquarters of the Mississippi ... Luther King as “the Rev. Dr. Extremist Agitator Martin Luther King, Jr ...

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 ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year in ... located in Memphis just blocks away from Tommy Lee Park and the Mississippi River. The motel is now home to the National Civil ...

As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third Monday of January in recognition of his birthday on Jan. 15, 1929 — we revisit some of his most ...

Monday, Jan. 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The federal holiday is set aside each year to recognize and honor civil rights ...

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 ...