All posts tagged "Martin Luther King Jr."

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By Perry Bacon Jr. I’m currently a “none” or, more precisely, a “nothing in particular.” But I want to be a something. “None” is...

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By Contributing Writer The memes, the reenactments, the folding chair earrings! In the aftermath of the Alabama Brawl, Black America has had a lighthearted...

Editorial

“What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have enough money to buy...

Editorial

By WI Web Editor and A. Peter Bailey For over 50 years millions of Black people in this country have held commemoration events on the days Brother...

Cheryl's World

New book explores a new movement

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By Oakland Post Twenty-five high school age students and staff of the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland spent the day in...

Editorial

By Marian Wright Edelman April 4 was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center Egg’stravaganza Dallas Park and Recreation welcomes families to a citywide Easter event where children will receive candy-filled plastic...

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THE CHICAGO DEFENDER — John Lewis was 25 when he marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten by state...

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