An Post has today issued two stamps in recognition of the life and achievements of international statesmen and Nobel peace prize winners, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela.

Martin Luther King Day America today marks the birth of the great anti-racist, pacifist, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr with a federal holiday.

President Barack Obama helps paint a mural of Martin Luther King Jr., in the community room of the Jobs Have Priority Naylor Road Family Shelter in Washington today.

FIFTY years ago last month, when Martin Luther King led thousands of non-violent protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, the civil rights movement was born out of a vicious police onslaught on the demonstrators amid what began as a campaign for votes for African Americans.