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Jan 15 2023
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Biden honors Martin Luther King at historic Atlanta church
ATLANTA — Joe Biden, in a Sunday sermon at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, used the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic pulpit to build bridges with Black voters as he gears up for a reelection bid. Alluding to his failure to deliver on a key campaign promise — to restore voting rights protections erased by the Supreme Court in 2013 — he recalled King’s “epic struggle for civil rights
Boston HeraldDec 09 2023
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Retired NYPD cops visited Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home to take a picture. They caught an alleged would-be arsonist
Kenneth Dodson and younger brother Axel visited the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta Thursday to take a picture. For a moment, it was like the retired New York City Police Department officers were back on the job. Someone called out that a woman had tried to burn down the late civil rights leader’s historic home. “What do you think? Should we chase her?” Axel Dodson asked
CNN (Online News)Jan 16 2023
Headline Roundup
How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ideas Remain Relevant Today
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023, voices across the political spectrum remarked on his values and how they remain relevant in modern society. Some left-rated voices framed King's mission as focused on wokeness, anti-racism, and equity for black people; some right-rated voices said King would disapprove of modern racial activism and some of its polarizing tactics.
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New York Post (Opinion) New York Times (Opinion) The HillJan 15 2024
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54th annual Love March held to honor Dr. Martin Luther King
NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) - Marchers took to the streets of New Haven Monday to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s birthday. The march, started by the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, dates back 54 years. Bundled up in hats and winter coats, they walked blocks through New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood. “I like marching, because you get to march with other people in my family,” said Kayden Smith
WFSBOct 28 2021
Analysis
Why Martin Luther King Couldn't Get a Carry Permit
After his home was bombed in 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a gun. Despite the potentially deadly threats that King faced as a leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, the county sheriff, Mac Sim Butler, said no.
Next week the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to a New York law similar to the Alabama statute that empowered local officials like
ReasonJul 10 2023
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Republicans in Iowa pick Martin Luther King federal holiday as caucus date
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans announced Saturday that the party’s presidential nominating caucuses will be held Jan. 15, on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., putting the first votes of the 2024 election a little more than six months away as the GOP tries to reclaim the White House. White House candidates have campaigned in Iowa since last winter, but there has
MarketWatchMar 03 2024
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'I Think You’re Better Than Martin Luther King': Donald Trump Endorses Mark Robinson For Governor Of North Carolina
Donald Trump endorsed North Carolina’s current Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson for governor on March 2, fulfilling a promise Trump made months ago. As the Associated Press reports, the former president also compared Robinson to Martin Luther King, Jr. at a campaign rally. Trump called Robinson “Martin Luther King on steroids” before he added, “I told that to Mark. I said, ‘I think you’re
Black EnterpriseApr 05 2018
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Martin Luther King: Are there too many white politicians?
"Give us the ballot," said Dr King, "and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill". Half a century after his death, Reality Check looks at how the racial and ethnic make-up of Congress and state legislatures has changed.
BBC NewsJan 19 2015
Headline Roundup
Remembering Martin Luther King
Fox News (Online News) Salon NPR (Online News)Jul 07 2015
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Martin Luther King's Politics of Hope - Beyond Polarization
The Pope follows in the tradition of Martin Luther King and others in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Keenly aware of the power of southern segregationists they advanced a politics aimed at winning over the broad middle of American society.
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