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Georgia man restores MLK Bible for Obama inauguration
Reblogged from theGrio: GEORGIA - A metro Atlanta man has painstakingly restored a Bible that belonged to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. so it can be used in Monday's presidential inauguration. Gordon...
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Curtis Mayfield:Music of the Civil Rights Movement
The year was 1964! Martin Luther King Jr. still had four years to live, and the struggle for Civil Rights was igniting the nation. King’s March on Washington, a year earlier, had been a success, and...
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Labor celebrates King’s legacy
Some of the sanitation workers who went on strike in Memphis in 1968 — the labor action that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to the site of his assassination — will join in events this week commemorating...
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On march’s anniversary, voting rights still an issue
Image: Paul J. Richards, AFP/Getty Images The 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington is being commemorated amid moves by some states to impose restrictions on one of its central goals:...
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Revealed: NSA spied on Martin Luther King and senators opposed to Vietnam War
The National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali as well as other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret program later deemed...
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“Dr. King ended the terror of living in the south.”
I was having this argument with my father about Martin Luther King and how his message was too conservative compared to Malcolm X’s message. My father got really angry at me. It wasn’t that he disliked...
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Why Civil Rights and Gun Rights Are Inseparable
Image: Reason Magazine In January 1960, Martin Luther King Jr., the rising star of the civil rights movement, and Robert Williams, president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP,...
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O’Reilly: Black People Should Wear ‘Don’t Get Pregnant At 14′ T-Shirts
Bill O’Reilly advised black Americans to wear t-shirts that say “Don’t Get Pregnant At 14″ and “Don’t Abandon Your Children” during a segment with Martin Luther King Jr.’s son on Wednesday night....
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Dear White America: Here’s What You Should Know About MLK Before Using Him to...
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People have been telling black activists how to protest for 150 years...
Yesterday, four police officers walked off the job at a WNBA game after a group of players donned shirts in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. This story marks but one of the many...
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Robert Scheer: MLK Has Been Repackaged as an Innocuous, Benign Figure. He...
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer unpacks Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, an address inspired in part by a harrowing piece published in Ramparts Magazine while Scheer was editor...
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Fifty Years On, MLK’s Call for Economic Justice Rings True
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down fifty years ago today on April 4, 1968. It was a turning point of the twentieth century, marking an ending and a beginning. It was the end of one phase...
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