The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Every president brings a personal touch to the Oval Office, and President Trump is going for gold. NPR's Michel Martin asks ...

After slashing hundreds of grants for cultural institutions, the agency is opening applications for the president’s widely ...

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

Trump’s rococo Oval Office decorations are old-fashioned, just not for Americans.

Every president brings a personal touch to the Oval Office, and President Trump is going for gold. NPR's Michel Martin asks Washington Post senior critic Robin Givhan about the image that projects.

legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it. States held back as activists stepped up Reagan's signing did ...

The commemoration became a federal holiday in 1983 after Ronald Reagan signed the King ... overlapping with Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration.

Martin Luther King ... holiday in honour of King. But it wasn't until 15 years later that civil rights activists continued to fight for this bill when President Ronald Reagan signed the King ...

American citizens are turning out in huge numbers to protest the assault on bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution, the ...