ALABAMA (WHNT) — The fourth Monday in April is a state-recognized holiday, meaning state offices and courts are closed. Today, April 28, is what is known as Confederate Memorial Day. Alabama is one of ...

State offices, including state courts, in Alabama are closed today for a holiday, though it’s not one most places celebrate.

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the state holiday?

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

Martin Luther King III, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley spoke at the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally.

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled ...

President Trump issued a rare rebuke to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday, calling on him to stop his bombing ...