It was 41 years ago that President Ronald Reagan made the third Monday in January an official federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jan. 15 birthday.

As the nation prepares to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s worth remembering that venerated Republican deity Ronald Reagan opposed the King holiday right up until the day he signed ...

It has been 40 years since Ronald Reagan signed the bill making Martin Luther King Jr. Day an official national holiday. In that time the legacy of America’s most famous and formidable civil ...

Time Studios and Stevie Wonder’s Eyes ‘n’ Sound are partnering to produce a feature doc chronicling the cultural, political, ...

A documentary covering Stevie Wonder’s work to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a holiday is now in production.

A new feature documentary from Time Studios and Stevie Wonder’s Eyes ‘n’ Sound will highlight the music icon’s pivotal role ...

One of the inconvenient facts confounding the left-wing account of the civil-rights movement is President Ronald Reagan’s establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

It wasn’t for 15 years until after King’s death that civil rights activists finally succeeded in making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a nationally observed holiday.. On Nov. 2, 1983, Reagan ...

When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? The federal government shuts down on the third Monday of every January for the day to honor Martin Luther King Jr. This year, that day is Jan. 20.

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

Editors note: Versions of this editorial have appeared at earlier holidays. It was 41 years ago that President Ronald Reagan made the third Monday in January an official federal holiday to honor ...