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

SummarySpecial Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Lincoln Library to feature recital by local talent, music, and blood drive The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has announced a special celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

— Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day!

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a letter opener between his heart and lung. He was taken to Harlem Hospital where his physician, Dr. Aubré D. Maynard, said, “If you had sneezed, your aorta would have been punctured and you would have drowned in your own blood.”

In these quiet ways — and others — people across the Washington region will honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday while thousands of others converge on the nation’s capital to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump being sworn in for a second term.

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation workers, who were in the midst of a protracted strike against the city. This is the speech that concluded with the magnificent “I’ve been to the mountaintop” oration,

Martin Luther King Jr. Day every year allows companies, groups, individuals and diverse communities around the country to celebrate a man who not only challenged the reactionary forces of hate during the Civil Rights Movement but demanded that Black people be viewed as part of the tapestry of American life.

On a frigid holiday Monday in Washington D.C., Donald Trump will take the oath of office for a second time to become the 47th president of the United States.