The federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader's work against end segregation and racism falls on the third Monday of January. Trump spent the day at his Mar-a-Lago estate. He is scheduled to attend the National College Football Championship in Miami in the evening.

U.S. stock markets, including the NYSE and Nasdaq, are closed on Monday, Jan. 19, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross, who represents Raleigh in Congress, also attended Monday’s march, telling The N&O that it was “an uplifting way to take care of a very difficult time in our history.”