{"id":8499,"date":"2026-01-19T05:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/could-this-be-the-last-year-we-commemorate-mlk-day-as-a-federal-holiday\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T05:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:45:23","slug":"could-this-be-the-last-year-we-commemorate-mlk-day-as-a-federal-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/could-this-be-the-last-year-we-commemorate-mlk-day-as-a-federal-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Could this be the last year we commemorate MLK Day as a federal holiday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The monument to Dr Martin Luther King in Washington DC was dedicated by President Barack Obama on Aug. 28, 2011 (BackyardProductions\/iStock Images)..<\/p>\n

If left up to the Trump administration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day would likely be nullified as a federal holiday.<\/p>\n

Trump used his executive powers to change the observance of MLK Day<\/a> by cancelling it as a free-admission day for those who wish to visit our national parks during federal holidays.<\/p>\n

The order also applies to Juneteenth. Access to the national parks on those two days will no longer be free as it is with other federal holidays. However, free admission days this year will include June 14, Trump\u2019s birthday, which is also Flag Day and is not a federal holiday.<\/p>\n

Obstructing the commemoration or MLK Day is just one more step in mitigating, minimizing or outright undoing the place and role of Black Americans.<\/p>\n

Targeting and removing diversity, equity and inclusion<\/a> programs and initiatives in both the public and private sectors has been a high priority during the second term of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s most recent declaration is that the Civil Rights Act hurt white people<\/a>, resulting in \u201cwhite people being treated very badly.\u201d What will be next?<\/p>\n

Will there be ongoing efforts to bury, erase and recast all of the Black experience \u2014 the inhumane and inequitable treatment across generations, as well as the contributions to this country despite it?<\/p>\n

Is the desire to bury everything about Black people in a time capsule, never to be found.<\/p>\n

As we pause to commemorate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., we should take notice of the stark and diabolical efforts to undue everything he worked and paid the ultimate price for: equal treatment, access and opportunities, not only for Blacks but poor whites and all the down-trodden among us.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the work is not done.<\/p>\n

There are concerted efforts in every aspect of American life to undue the progress made so far and stop the march toward equality.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King Jr. believed in America\u2019s promise \u2014 the ideals, principles and laws on which this country was founded and promoted. He mobilized others and appealed to elected officials and policymakers at every level of government to ensure that laws, rights and privileges of the land applied equally to all citizens, irrespective of skin color, gender or station in life.<\/p>\n

That was his dream. His life\u2019s work. His ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n

When remembering King the famous \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, which he delivered during the march on Washington, D.C. in 1963, is often referenced.<\/p>\n

But the fire that burned within King\u2019s soul, that led him to dedicate his life toward eradicating social evil and injustice, started long before \u2014 nearly 20 years earlier when he traveled to Dublin, Georgia as a senior in high school to deliver \u201cThe Negro and the Constitution\u201d in an oratory contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, King\u2019s dream was just a flicker back then. But as you follow King\u2019s life through college and the seminary, you see that flicker grows into a flame. The more he saw and heard, the more he could not turn a blind eye or a deaf ear. He set out on a life-long journey to eradicate human injustice.<\/p>\n

What issues or conditions tug at your heart and soul deeply enough to spend time to change them, make things better for the disenfranchised among us?<\/p>\n

It is never too early or too late to do something.<\/p>\n

America needs dreamers today like Martin Luther King, Jr. to fix some of its greatest social, racial challenges and inequities.<\/p>\n

Many we thought were behind us, only to realize the resurgence of many anew.<\/p>\n

While besieged by the current hyperbolic and unpredictable political environment perpetuated by the Trump administration and his state and local cohorts, we could easily lose sight of the ground we have lost in recent years in the quest for equality and equal opportunity \u2014 many of the things King fought and died for.<\/p>\n

Schools across America are still segregated<\/a>, some more than ever.<\/p>\n

Voting rights continue to be challenged in many states<\/a>, making it more difficult for Blacks and other minorities to exercise their right to vote.<\/p>\n

There is still discrimination occurring in the job market, access to housing<\/a>, and access to higher education whether it involves admission to colleges, universities of technical vocational institutions.<\/p>\n

Discrimination is still rampant in the justice system<\/a> when it comes to racial profiling, traffic stops, or issuing the same punishments for the same crime. There are injustices even among how schools discipline Black children and white children<\/a> for the same misconduct.<\/p>\n

The pronouncement, executive orders and other actions of the Trump administration have only fueled racial inequity and discord, bringing it front and center in almost every aspect of our daily lives.<\/p>\n

Is this your dream for America?<\/p>\n

Doing something, continuing to root out inequality and injustice where we encounter it, is the greatest tribute we can pay to Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n

When King took up the fight to realize America\u2019s promise for all of her citizens, he knew\u00a0 change would not come overnight.<\/p>\n

What are we willing to do, whether Martin Luther King Jr. Day remains a federal holiday or not?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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