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          "The King's Speech" by Maxim Lebedev sampled Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountain Top".!

          Today we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., and his work to ensure the civil rights of ALL PEOPLE.

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        2. "The King's Speech" by Maxim Lebedev sampled Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountain Top".
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          In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

          In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a non-incumbent president.

          That changes this year.

          Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated annually on the third Monday in January to mark the late activist’s birthday. In , the holiday falls on January 20, the same day typically set aside for Inauguration Day every four years.

          Indeed, January 20 is also when Donald Trump will be sworn in as 47th president.

          Bill Clinton and Barack Obama previously took presidential oaths of office on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. However, in both cases, the men were starting their second consecutive terms, much quieter occasions than the transfer of power from one president to the next.

          Days after King’s assassination in , a campaign for a holiday in his honor began. U.S. Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan first prop