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

Monday, January 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This year, the holiday coincides with ...

One Senate seat is up for election in Michigan, held by a Democratic incumbent ... Businessman and Iraq War veteran John James won a tough Republican primary with an endorsement from Trump ...

On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed the bill named the “King Holiday Bill” that forevermore set the third ...

The longest-serving black member of the US Congress, John Conyers, has died at home at ... In 1964, he narrowly won his first election in Michigan, becoming one of just six black members of ...

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 ...