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

John Conyers, U.S. Representative for Michigan's 14th congressional district. Four days after his assassination, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a bill in the Congress to recognize ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in ...

Detroit City Councilman Fred Durhal launched his campaign for mayor on Wednesday at the Boys & Girls Club of Southeastern ...

Here's what's open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025.

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for a federal holiday to honor the civil rights leader. However, the holiday wasn't signed into law until 1983, and the first national celebration ...