In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

When Warren H. Stewart Sr. first came to Phoenix nearly 50 years ago from New York City, his plan was to stay for a few years ...

Mecham was at the center of a controversy over a paid state holiday to honor slain civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and drew raised eyebrows with some of his comments, which were ...

Mecham courted controversy from the beginning of his tenure as governor in 1987, starting with his rescinding of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a state holiday.

After Martin Luther King Jr.’s death in 1968, civil rights activists including King’s widow Coretta Scott King and musician Stevie Wonder spent 15 years amassing the political support for a ...

A new documentary from Stevie Wonder will explore his role in establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday.

Photo by Savion Washington/Getty ImagesA documentary is in the works about the role Stevie Wonder played in helping to make ...