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50 Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 hours ago“Service it the rent that you pay for room on this earth.” — Shirley Chisholm “We shall overcome...
The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr. she was thought of as his ‘other wife’
Stamford Advocate· 4 days agoThe most damaging is that King may have witnessed – and encouraged – a sexual assault at a Washington, D.C. hotel in January 1964. Garrow publishes content from FBI files ...
Arizona lawmaker says fake electors are like civil rights heroes? Uh, nope
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoKing spent his life reaching for the mountaintop and dreaming of a better day, whereas the fake electors descended into the depths of MAGA madness where ...
Memorial services, funeral arrangements announced for N.J. Rep. Donald Payne, Jr.
NJ.com· 3 days agoMartin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Newark on Wednesday, May 1. Members of the public...
War, Genocide, Violence, and the Gospel’s Response
The Nation· 31 minutes agoMartin Luther King, Jr. taught, and we know, that if every decision is shaped by a nation’s commitment to a philosophy and ideology that ...
Hammond mayor closes MLK Park 'indefinitely' following apparent vandalism
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 5 days agoMartin Luther King Jr. Park was previously closed for over a year following a series of shootings in...
MLKCenter marks 50th Anniversary with expansion plans
Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. via Yahoo News· 2 days agoApr. 27—Muskogee's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center marks 50 years of growth with a call to grow even more. The MLK center ...
Oberlin’s Whistle-Stop Poetry Tour uses poems, historical sites to honor civil rights history
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 6 days agoNow, a day filled with social justice poetry — which confronts hard truths about injustice and hate...
Ex-Gov David Paterson says Jewish protesters marched with MLK — and they deserve support now as...
NY Post metro via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"Sixty five percent of the whites who marched with Dr. King were Jewish … They deserve somebody to...
Services announced for US Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. who died at 65
News 12 New Jersey· 3 days agoRep. Donald Payne, Jr. will lie in state at the Essex County Historic Court House on Wednesday, May 1. A funeral will be held the next day.