Joe Biden spent his final full day as president Sunday in South Carolina, urging Americans to "keep the faith in a better day to come" and reflecting on the influence of both the civil rights movement ...

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Will banks, post offices and shipping services be open on MLK Day? Here's what you need to know for Monday, Jan. 20.

“Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently wrote. “Before the pen of ...

Altadena, California, was among Los Angeles County's first Black middle-class enclaves. Some fear recent wildfires may have erased that legacy.

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Albuquerque NAACP President Harold Bailey died on Monday, putting to rest a half-century fight against racism and bigotry in ...

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.

Monday won't only be Inauguration Day; it's also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. See what to know about holiday, as well as what will be open and closed.