"Unity is now returning to America, and confidence and pride is soaring like never before in everything we do," Trump said.

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day to remember King's life's work and his legacy on civil rights and social justice.

Martin Luther King III, the son of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr., said his father would be “quite disappointed” with the current world, but not surprised. King joined NBC News’s

President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do so, nor to use the historical Bible he chose.

Trump’s decision to release these files comes in the wake of strong advocacy from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of RFK, who has long pushed for the declassification of documents related to his uncle’s assassination.

Suzette Hackney talked with Martin Luther King III about the convergence of Inauguration Day with the day of service that honors his father.

The federal holiday is “a day for us to remember that we are all one people,” keynote speaker Michele Norris, a Minnesota native, said.

The son of Martin Luther King Jr's request to the incoming president comes just ahead of Trump's return to the White House on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

A Congressman from Louisiana complimented Donald Trump and Elon Musk, likening the two figures to civil rights activist Rosa Parks after his inauguration fell on MLK day