Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day collide Monday in a rare occurrence. The big picture: Stock markets, banks, many schools and the U.S. Postal Service are closed for the federal holiday,

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.