In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

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Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham is impeached and ... Mecham courted controversy from the beginning of his tenure as governor in 1987, starting with his rescinding of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a ...

Mecham was at the center of a controversy over a paid state holiday to honor slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and drew raised eyebrows with some of his comments, which were ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen with the Washington Monument, during the 9th Annual Wreath Laying and Day of Reflection and Reconciliation, in Washington, Monday, Jan.20, 2020.