With Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday honoring the late civil rights icon, falling on a Monday this year, Michigan residents hoping to run errands or conduct business may be out of luck.

Martin Luther King Jr. celebration The Timberland Charter Academy hosts the MLK Day celebration event from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Mt. Zion Church of God in Christ, 188 W. Muskegon Ave.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In 1983, the King Holiday Bill was signed, designating the third Monday in January a federal holiday to honor civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In West ...

For 30 years, a recording of Martin Luther King Jr's speech at Western Michigan University was lost. Then in 1997, it was ...

John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for ... Here’s what’s open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025. Major U.S. retailers and grocers — such as Target, Walmart and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

The Air Force will not use official resources to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, in addition to other cultural awareness holidays and months. An Air Force memo sent out Friday ...

In the late 1940s, the Western Michigan College Players performed ... scholarship programs that continue to this day, like the Martin Luther King Jr. Students Scholars Academy, which provides ...