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Three MLK High School students charged with battery after fighting teacher
Several Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School students sparked a physical altercation with a teacher in the school’s hallway ...
Fire destroys Clayborn Temple, historic Memphis church with ties to MLK and Civil Rights Movement
Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, caught fire ...
Memphis church key to Martin Luther King's last campaign destroyed by fire
A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther King's last civil rights ...
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‘We must take a stand’: SJ public library fights to maintain funding amid budget woes
LIBRARY ADVOCATES SAY they expect to ride out the upcoming San Jose budget cycle without any major cuts. But trouble could be on the horizon, with the ...
Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days suffers devastating fire
King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest ...
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Boston celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK as advocates urge continued fight against injustice
As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...
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DeKalb County high school students charged after fight with teacher
Three DeKalb County students are facing charges and a teacher is on leave after a physical altercation in the school's ...
First time in 30+ years: Kansas City Public Schools break ground on new school
On Wednesday, Kansas City Public Schools alongside JE Dunn Construction and Hollis + Miller Architects officially broke ...
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60 years ago, my grandfather joined Martin Luther King's Boston march
Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...