More than 2,000 people gathered for an annual breakfast Monday in Minneapolis to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States.
Martin Luther King III, a civil rights activist and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, spoke to CBS News on MLK Day and Trump's inauguration.
On January 20, 2025, Michelle Obama skipped Donald Trump's inauguration. Instead, she took to Instagram to honor MLK Day, and encouraged her followers to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "legacy of service."
The breakfast, held annually on MLK day, honors the memory and legacy of Dr. King as well as the work of Reverend Jackson.
“Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service always inspires me,” Obama wrote on Instagram. “This #MLKDay, I hope you’ll join me and @WhenWeAllVote in honoring Dr. King’s life and legacy by getting involved in your community.”
U.S. stock markets will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange will both be closed on the federal holiday but will reopen for regular trading hours on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
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When Trump ends divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion training, he could replace it with alternatives based on King's philosophy of love.
Parade-goers march during the 45th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial March in downtown Raleigh on Monday, Jan. 20 ,2025. Middleton called King a proponent of “radical love,” and attendees remembered him as a leader who encouraged action and compassion.
Where King's vision was rooted in the American dream, in liberty and justice for all, Trump’s is fueled by pettiness, vengeance, division, and flagrant inequality of justice in action.