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“Remember! Celebrate! Act! King’s Dream for our World” Be sure to participate in the  many events taking place for the 2013 King Holiday Observance!  “The Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration”  Friday, January 11, 2013 – Monday, January 21, 2013 For complete event details, please visit:  http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-holiday-observance-2013

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In December 2007, Mitt Romney was asked by “Meet The Press” host Tim Russert about the history of racism in the Mormon church, which excluded African Americans from participation until 1978. Romney claimed that his father marched with Martin Luther King. Romney would also claim that he “saw his father march with Martin Luther King” […]

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The MLK Day Brotherhood Awards are NewsOne’s annual celebration of five important Americans who are continuing the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. — especially in the realm of interpersonal, cross-racial, and cross-ethnic understanding. Our honorees are the bridge builders and the nation healers. CHECK FOR MORE HONOREES AS THEY ARE REVEALED BEFORE MLK DAY HERE. […]

Bernice A. King has been named CEO of The King Center. The announcement follows King’s departure last year from her role as an elder and pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. King also declined to take office as the first woman president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference due to infighting within the organization. […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Some forward-looking college professors enabled television’s Smithsonian Channel to offer a look at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. from the time in which it occurred. The network said Wednesday it will air a documentary in February culled primarily from local news footage in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader […]

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For some time now, white supremacists have been buying web domains relating to Martin Luther King. Now they have managed to get one of their sites into the first page of Martin Luther King’s Google ranking. One site that disrespects King has even managed to outrank the official Martin Luther King site on Google. The […]

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PLEASE JOIN NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK August 28, 2010 | 11:00 am | Dunbar High School | 1301 New Jersey Avenue Northwest | Washington, DC 47 years ago, the March on Washington took place where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington. 47 years later, Rev. […]

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VIA: 11Alive.com The senior pastor of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church took an HIV/AIDS test during the Sunday morning service to encourage church members to do the same. “We don’t like to talk about these things in church,” Rev. Raphael Warnock told the congregation. “We’ve got to fight the unholy trinity of silence, shame and stigma.” Rev. Warnock said […]