Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Monday, January 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, the holiday coincides with ...

There will also be an extra emphasis on King’s ideas and words about leadership and equality, versus the ideas and words of the incoming President Donald Trump, whose inauguration falls on Marti ...

John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation ... the holiday coincides with President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, though the majority of business closures will be for MLK Day.

Just days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced a bill to establish a federal holiday in his honor. The holiday was finally signed into law in 1983 ...