Arizona was one of the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday and the only state that required a ...

It took a long and contentious fight to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a state holiday in Arizona. The big picture: The ...

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the ...

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super ...

Evan Mecham. On Jan. 12, 1987, Mecham rescinded a 1986 executive order by previous Gov. Bruce Babbitt to create the holiday after the Legislature failed to pass by one vote. The state lost more ...

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration will coincide with MLK Day, marking only the second such overlap in U.S. history.

Evan Mecham, who was impeached and removed from office, or SB 1070, the legislation that made being in the country illegally ...