Renad Kabashi won this year's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Contest for 6th grade. The Golda Meir School student reads her original poem in her essay, "Standing with Sudan: How we can make a ...

Editor's note: Here are the first through fifth grade winners of the 42nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest ...

Jonathan Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length ...

This is the fourth time in history Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day have overlapped. Are the stock markets open or closed today because of the federal holiday or Inauguration Day?

Additionally, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educator of the Year Award will be presented to Rakia Jones, 5th-grade teacher at Samuel Clemens School for her outstanding efforts and dedication in ...