King’s Birthday

LONDON, United Kingdom – Catherine, Princess of Wales, will attend her father-in-law King Charles III’s birthday celebrations in June, the army said Tuesday, in her first official duty to be announced since undergoing surgery. The British Army said Catherine, who is married to heir to the throne Prince William, will review soldiers on June 8 as part of the annual Trooping the Color ceremony. But Kate and William’s Kensington Palace office has not formally confirmed her appearance. The army’s website also listed the king, who is being treated for cancer, as attending the main military parade on June 15, which marks his official birthday. Charles, 75, on Tuesday held an in-person audience with finance minister Jeremy Hunt, who delivers the…

LONDON — Confusion reigned on Tuesday (March 5) over the announcement by the British Army of Catherine, Princess of Wales’s first official duty since undergoing surgery at her father-in-law King Charles III’s birthday celebrations in June. The British Army initially said that Catherine, who is married to heir to the throne Prince William, would review soldiers on June 8 as part of the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony. Kate and Prince William’s Kensington Palace office did not formally confirm her appearance and the army later removed a reference to it from its website. That came just 24 hours after Kate was spotted in public for the first time since she underwent abdominal surgery in January, according to photos published by…

London, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 6th Mar, 2024) Confusion reigned on Tuesday over the announcement by the British Army of Catherine, Princess of Wales’s first official duty since undergoing surgery at her father-in-law King Charles III’s birthday celebrations in June. That came just 24 hours after Kate was spotted in public for the first time since she underwent abdominal surgery in January, according to photos published by US outlet TMZ. The British head of state, dressed in a blue suit and a light tie, was photographed shaking hands with Hunt as he welcomed him at Buckingham Palace in London. Social media has been alight with conspiracy theories over the princess’s prolonged absence from the spotlight. Rather…

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Mayor LaToya Cantrell along and fellow officials, joined members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Planning Commission to unveil a historic marker of King’s late wife. On Friday, Jan. 5, Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s legacy was commemorated with a marker that now sits on the neutral ground at the corner of South Claiborne and Jackson avenues. The marker depicts the role she played in helping to make her husband’s birthday a national holiday. St. Charles Parish employees perform active shooter drill “On behalf of the city of New Orleans, let this unveiling of this dedication and this historic marker uplift us and give us the courage that we need…

ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — Communities across the nation planned to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with events ranging from prayer services to parades, but a dangerously cold winter storm was limiting some planned activities. President Joe Biden planned to spend the national holiday volunteering at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization in Philadelphia. This will be the third year in a row for the president to work with the charity on MLK Day, which is often celebrated by offering service to the community. Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to be in South Carolina to give the keynote address for state NAACP’s “King Day at the Dome.” The event started in 2000, drawing thousands who spilled off…

ATLANTA (AP) — Communities across the nation celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with events ranging from prayer services to parades, but a dangerously cold winter storm was limiting some planned activities. In Atlanta, the King Center’s annual commemorative service was being held at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King served as pastor. King’s daughter Bernice King told the crowd gathered for the 56th commemorative service that her father’s legacy of nonviolence taught the world that “we can defeat injustice, ignorance and hold people accountable at the same time without seeking to destroy, diminish, demean or cancel them.” Kingian nonviolence is “a blueprint to make of this old world a new world,” she said. “It is…

ATLANTA (AP) — Communities across the nation celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with acts of service, prayer services and parades. But with the November presidential election as a backdrop, some events took on an overtly political turn. Watch Harris’ remarks in the player above. Speaking at the MLK Day at the Dome rally at the South Carolina Statehouse, Vice President Kamala Harris said young people two or three generations removed from King have seen their freedoms shrink — from laws restricting voting to bans on abortions and the ever-present threat of gun violence, especially in schools. “They even try to erase, overlook and rewrite the ugly parts of our past. For example, the Civil War —…

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Held on the third Monday of the month, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday takes place this year on King’s birthday, January 15. In addition to a variety of events set to take place on and around the holiday, many of Northeast Ohio’s cultural institutions will be opening their doors for free on Monday. Here’s our list of 21 events taking place in-person or virtually to honor Dr. King this year. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert Cleveland Orchestra’s annual concert honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Program will also feature Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Chorus and violinist Amaryn Olmeda. Tickets are sold out. The concert will be broadcast live for free…

SACRAMENTO – While the weather is cooperating with participants in Sacramento’s March for the Dream, other regions of the country are having to shorten or delay their MLK Jr. holiday events due to a dangerously cold winter storm. Communities across the nation celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday with events ranging from prayer services to parades, but the storm was limiting some planned activities. In Philadelphia, President Joe Biden marked the holiday by volunteering at Philabundance, a nonprofit food bank. He stuffed donation boxes with apples and struck up casual chatter with workers at the organization, where he volunteered for the third year in a row to mark the January day of service. Vice President Kamala Harris…

PORTSMOUTH — Quotes and images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lined the inside of South Church Monday, which would have been the civil rights trailblazer’s 95th birthday, to honor of his life and legacy. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was marked at the historic downtown church with congregants and Seacoast citizens listening to readings of select speeches from King, hymns, and remarks from local and state political leaders. The remembrance was held only a few streets away from The Pearl, New Hampshire’s first Black-owned church and the site where King delivered a sermon in October 1952, when he was a divinity student at Boston University. The South Church tribute from the Seacoast NAACP was preceded by a volunteer-led pancake…

In the United States, the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are celebrated on Martin Luther King Day, which always falls on the third Monday in January. The holiday, which is a celebration of Dr. King’s Jan. 15 birthday, was first observed in 1986. While it would be another 14 years before the holiday was observed in all 50 states, the NBA began its holiday celebrations in 1986. MLK Day has been a feature day on the league’s calendar with marquee games and a focus on Dr. King’s message and service to the community. 38 years later, MLK Day is still a marquee date on the NBA calendar, with 11 games scheduled to take place on the…

Janet Y. Jackson Monday is the national holiday honoring the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which was signed into law in 1983 by President Ronald Regan. Currently, at least, most children are taught about King in school. Aside from Columbus Day — which has been renamed Indigenous People’s Day or Italian American Heritage and Culture Day by opposing groups recently — this holiday is the only one in our nation named for an individual other than a president. For many, this is simply a day of leisure. For boomers like me, however, Dr. King was more than a man in a history book. He was a man of our generation who sacrificed his life in pursuit…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday celebrated across the nation. President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in November 1983 making the King’s birthday a federal holiday and it was first celebrated in 1986. However, it wasn’t until 2000 before all 50 states made it a state government holiday, with strong resistance coming from Arizona, according to the National Constitution Center. In 1990, voters in Arizona rejected a referendum to recognize the holiday. It resulted in the NFL pulling the Super Bowl from Tempe and moving it to Southern California, the National Constitution Center says. Voters in Arizona approved the holiday two years later. South Carolina also was resistant and was the last state to…

Washington, Jan 13 (AP) As communities nationwide prepare this weekend to celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with events ranging from parades to prayer services, some will take a cue from the slain civil rights icon’s history of protest to demonstrate against the war in Gaza and draw attention to a looming U.S. presidential election. The Monday holiday also marks 100 days since Oct. 7, when Hamas launched an attack in southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and resulted in about 240 taken hostage. Since then, more than 100 Israelis remain kidnapped and more than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, as global health organizations have warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis there.…

LONDON — Plots, bills and parties give way Monday to family — and ritual. The little traditions we make for ourselves on Christmas Day pause time and briefly silence the rattle of the outside world. POLITICO London Playbook sent out the call for Westminster’s weird, wonderful or heartwarming traditions — the thing Christmas isn’t Christmas without. Pour a glass and settle in. “I always brine then cook the turkey — I hate the cooking, but no one else will do it! — and watch The Snowman with my daughters on Christmas Eve followed by The Holiday on Christmas Day.” “My kids get up at stupid o’clock to open presents, and afterwards we go to the memorial stone for Vic’s mum,…