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.

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 ...

On a picturesque autumn day in the White House Rose Garden in 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the Martin Luther King Day bill into law. Even then, fifteen years after King had been gunned ...

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 ...

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

“This is not a black holiday; it is a people’s holiday,” said Coretta Scott King after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. But in the complicated ...

President Ronald Reagan signs the bill making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday into a national holiday as Coretta Scott King looks on Nov. 2, 1983, in Washington.

As Donald Trump spends Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an empty public schedule, and Vice President Mike Pence spends the weekend trying to enlist the late civil rights hero in Trump's quest for a ...

As Donald Trump spends Martin Luther King Jr. Day with an empty public schedule, and Vice President Mike Pence spends the weekend trying to enlist the late civil rights hero in Trump's quest for a ...