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Honoring a civil rights icon while a fascist takes power
As Donald Trump places his hand atop the Bible, I'll be reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "Letter from a Birmingham ...
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Sharing MLK Day with Trump's inauguration
As the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, his daughter is urging people to ...
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🗓️ A busy Monday
It’s a busy Monday as Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Inauguration Day, a polar vortex, and the College Football National ...
Cleveland Orchestra celebrates Coretta Scott King in uplifting and joyful MLK concert
Soprano Laquita Mitchell, MLK Celebration Choir deliver powerful performances in tribute to civil rights leader at Severance ...
How did MLK Day become a federal holiday?
It took a long political effort to make the King Holiday commemoration a federal law. ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, ...
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Over 100 march through Chestertown in show of 'peaceful resistance'
While crowds gathered in Washington for the National People's March on Saturday, Kent County residents took to the streets with a message of peaceful resistance.
It took more than a dream to establish Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.
Playing in Coretta Scott King Classic ‘special moment’ for Maryland women’s basketball
Maryland’s participation in the Coretta Scott King Classic is an opportunity to honor the family legacy and emphasize women’s ...
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As I See It: Coretta Scott King's noble idea for MLK Day
The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day was January 20, 1986. Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. King, had a great idea in the year prior to the first ...