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After 8 years, city to replace Martin Luther King memorial in Avondale
The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
On This Day: MLK Jr. writes 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'
On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...
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Spring Vacation With Martin Luther King
Sixty Aprils ago, it wasn’t called spring break. It was referred to as spring vacation, or Easter vacation. That April in 1965, the year we would all turn 18, three friends and I traveled from ...
3 people shot near Exposition Park after weekend of violence in South L.A.
Police are searching for the suspects in Monday's triple shooting near Exposition Park. The violence comes on the heels of ...
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Family of Martin Luther King hits back at Le Pen for comparing struggles
“This constitutes an inappropriate distortion of history and undermines the sacrifices made by those who stood against hate and fought for justice,” the black pastor's son Martin Luther King ...
Christianity Today4d
MLK’s Famous Letter Changed a DC Church
A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...
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2 teens, woman hospitalized after triple shooting in Exposition Park, LAPD searches for gunmen
LAPD described two of the victims as 16-year-old teenage boys and the third victim as a woman in her 50s. All three were ...
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MLK Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South w/ Jeanne Theoharis
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in which ...