A Mississippi city voted Monday to ditch "Great Americans Day" and instead celebrate a holiday named for Martin Luther King Jr. The Biloxi City Council voted 6-0 Monday to change the name of the holiday in the city code. Monday was a federal holiday and was recognized in most of the United States as MLK Day. An uproar erupted on social media after a Biloxi spokesman posted last week that city offices would be closed for Great Americans Day. Biloxi's MLK Day is MLK Day.

Source: ABC News January 16, 2017 19:56 UTC