Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed the bill named the “King Holiday Bill” that forevermore set the third ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday ... Four days after his assassination, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a bill in the Congress to recognize King’s ...

This year's MLK Day also falls on Inauguration Day for President-elect Donald Trump, marking only the second time in 28 years that these federal observances align. The last time the two dates ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... U.S. Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving members of Congress known for his liberal stance ...

Texas officially recognized MLK Day in 1991. Today, it remains the only federal holiday designated as a national day of ...