Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s reach has only grown in its 42 years. It’s the only federal holiday where you take a “day on, not a day off.” In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law ...

Suzette Hackney talked with Martin Luther King III about the convergence of Inauguration Day with the day of service that honors his father.

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the ...

Since the holiday was officially designated in 1983, only one president was sworn in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: former President Bill Clinton. For his second term, Clinton's Inauguration took ...

Zoom in: It's the third time Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day have overlapped. Former President Bill Clinton's 1997 inauguration was the first, and former President Barack Obama's ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to ... The two other times Inauguration Day and MLK Day overlapped were during President Bill Clinton’s second inauguration in 1997 and President Obama ...

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... term Inauguration Day events happened on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, which was MLK Day. He was sworn in on Sunday, Jan. 20. Bill Clinton is the only president ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday ... Another 2024 bill would have moved the Lee holiday to Columbus Day in October, which coincides with the month of his ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day will coincide with the presidential ... but Congress struck the bill down in 1979 only to pass it four years later. Despite being made into a federal holiday in the ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King ... succeeded in making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a nationally observed holiday. On Nov. 2, 1983, Reagan signed a bill making the third Monday ...