🖤 Today in Black History…. “Petitions become policy when people refuse to let Congress look away.” November 2, 1983: President Ronald Reagan signed H.R. 3706 into law (Public Law 98-144), creating the federal Martin Luther King Jr. Day and fixing it on the third Monday in January. The push was years in the making. Coretta Scott King, the Congressional Black Caucus, and allies like Stevie Wonder helped deliver a 6-million-signature petition to Speaker Tip O’Neill. The bill’s sponsor was Rep. Kat