Events honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day around Tampa Bay BY Spectrum News Staff Tampa UPDATED 6:12 AM ET Jan. 20, 2025 ...

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 ...

An Illinois village has voted to purchase the childhood home of the first American pope, with a trustee saying the ...

1989: Phil Jackson was hired as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, replacing Doug Collins. After the Bulls won their sixth championship trophy, Jackson departed — and so did Michael Jordan and Scottie ...

At age 5, "I would arrange my stuffed animals in a half circle and 'teach' them, using my grandma’s old lesson planning books ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the past, I volunteered with AmeriCorps to collect socks for our “Warm Heart, Warm Feet” campaign. I also volunteer year-round working in our local school with ...

Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create ...

"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic." ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

Pope Leo XIV's hometown is poised to buy his childhood home after the south Chicago suburb's board voted unanimously Tuesday ...

A month after a deadly tornado ripped through St. Louis, the extensive damage and slow pace of recovery expose the city’s long-standing racial and socioeconomic divide.

While June 19, 1865, marks the day when the last enslaved people ... join the Juneteenth parade and festival on King Drive, thereby introducing them to the experience. The Kids Zone at Dr. Martin ...