The second federal holiday of 2026 is here. Jan. 19 marks the day that Americans honor the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. But the ...

The third Monday in January was officially designated as a federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on November 2, 1983, when President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into ...

Nearly 60 years after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and decades after a hard-fought campaign to make his birthday a federal holiday, organizers, city leaders and scholars ...

If you need to run to the bank or post office, it's a good idea to plan ahead and go before Monday. Major banks and U.S. Postal Service offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 15 in observance of ...