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Martin Luther King Jr. 'Knew That His Own Government Was Out to Destroy Him.' Here's What Helped Him Persevere

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the late civil rights leader on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out ...
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The political aspirations of African descendants in the Americas

In the early 2000s, a group of Afro-Colombians went to Washington to pressure their president, who was negotiating a free ...

King family members disappointed by National Park Service axing free entry on MLK Day, Juneteenth

The son of Martin Luther King Jr. says he's "beyond disappointed" by the National Park Service's decision to end free ...
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Charlotte to Honor MLK Jr. with Insightful Dialogue Featuring Experts at Covenant Presbyterian Church

The City of Charlotte Government is hosting an MLK event with Rev. Dr. Wherry and Prof. Greer discussing critical moments in ...
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5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. With protests mounting across the country to stop ICE and the Trump ...