Jan 29, 2025 · The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

Jan 31, 2025 · The Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered a pause of all activities and events related to Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month.

Jan 20, 2025 · Scholars Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Jan 21, 2025 · In his inauguration speech, which fell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Trump said he would work to "make his dream come true.” President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval...

Jan 19, 2025 · In August as he ran for president a third time, Donald Trump compared his crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021 to the throngs who gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech.

Jan 20, 2025 · In his inaugural address, Donald Trump thanked Black and Hispanic communities for their votes and invoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose federal holiday Trump shares with the day...

Jan 20, 2025 · Trump made a reference to Martin Luther King Jr. during his speech following his swearing into the office of the presidency. Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Jan 20, 2025 · On Monday, America will observe both the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose vision of pluralism, democracy and racial justice made him the most revered civil rights leader...

Jan 19, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday commemorating King’s legacy.

Donald Trump's being inaugurated on the day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. feels like a cruel irony.