Jan. 20 is a day to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All around Bloomington, on-campus and off, events are happening in honor of MLK Jr. From breakfasts to volunteer events, there are plenty of options to attend.

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the nation.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Two Mississippi Museums will offer free admission and host several events. On Monday, Jan. 20, the museum will also hold a voter registration event at ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is honoring the legacy of the late Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of events and activities for the campus and broader community. The university kicks off its annual MLK Jr. Day observance with a new Dr. Martin ...

During Martin Luther King Jr.'s years of public appearances, he visited S.C. 10 times between 1959 and 1967, favoring the Penn Center in as a special retreat.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on Jan. 20 ... When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert ...

Every year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day brings many celebrations to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Take a look at this year’s events, happening before and on the special day. See an event missing from this list?

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a letter opener between his heart and lung. He was taken to Harlem Hospital where his physician, Dr. Aubré D. Maynard, said, “If you had sneezed, your aorta would have been punctured and you would have drowned in your own blood.”

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and homilies and published five books. Meanwhile, the number of books written about King surely number in the thousands.

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly impossible goals," according to The King Center.