South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina Speaking at the MLK Day at the Dome rally at the South Carolina Statehouse, Vice President Kamala Harris said young ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Republican ... remarks later in the day, Loftis compared himself to figures like Trump as well as civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., focusing not on the ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

King's son said he never thought racism would still be around and on the rise like it is today, as rally-goers urged activism ...

The rally included Martin Luther King III as well as other local and state leaders across a variety of sectors.

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces sickle-cell treatment program in Charleston while assuring SC Sen. Tim Scott that federal ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and top administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz are visiting Charleston Friday to address a ...