The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day ... rights leader with a speech at an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

This Inauguration Day also lands on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is annually observed ... a paid day off for federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area.) Because MLK Day is a federal ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

The first breakfast gathering in Columbus to honor King occurred in 1986, which also was the first year of the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday ... who was in Washington on Monday ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... he gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church and was killed the next day. James Earl Ray was convicted of King's ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, commemorated each year on the third Monday in January, will be observed this year on Monday, Jan. 20. It's designated as a "national day of service to encourage all ...