Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama will pause its usual weekday routine on Monday to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honoring the civil rights leader whose ...

While most of the U.S. observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day, two states also recognize Robert E. Lee with a combined state holiday. Is AL one of them?

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

But alongside honors for the slain civil rights leader is recognition for Civil War general Robert E. Lee. Alabama and Mississippi are the only states that combine King and Lee in the same holiday. In ...

Montgomery is where Dr. King served as a pastor and helped plan many historic civil rights events. Trumpets and drums rang out at a parade on Dexter Avenue. Bands were joined by civic groups and ...

DEARBORN, MI - A significant piece of American history has been moved from Alabama to Michigan where it will soon be put on permanent display. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn announced the Dr.