On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...

Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...

Feb. 2 is the next Groundhog Day. Who is Georgia's groundhog? What does he do? What is the history of this strange holiday?

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is renewing accusation that Charleston County schools violated state law when it ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... While talking about Fort Bragg, named for an ineffective Confederate general which was renamed Fort Victory in 2023, National Guard veteran ...

Lee When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Many states in the South ...

On every third Monday in January every year Alabama and Mississippi honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and ...