It was a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to remember for Chelsea Public Schools students who participated in events in Chelsea and Boston to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. King. Students of ...

The Pentagon joined the scramble by federal agencies trying to conform to President Trump’s war on diversity programs.

The East Boston Chamber of Commerce placed a display of American flags to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 20, at the Daniel H. Solari Square outside the Chamber of Commerce ...

The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, in partnership with the City of Boston, honored the legacy of Boston University ...

Here's a chance for Marion Star readers to vote in the latest athlete of the week polls for boys and girls through early ...

While Pressley said she’d been busy at community events all day, she planned to listen to Trump’s inauguration speech, and paraphrased the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s important that we study ...

Yamiche Alcindor’s “ah-ha” moment came when she was in high school and heard the story of Emmett Till, a Black teen from ...

In 1970, the pastors of Boston’s St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church  and  Union United Methodist Church came together to create the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast. This year, the annual ...

Supporters, meanwhile, were still calling for federal holiday status. In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third ...

On Nov. 2, 1983, former President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law designating the third Monday of January ...

The first-ever teen-led Martin Luther King, Jr. Day commemoration took place at the Mattapan Teen Center on Monday with a ...