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Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK
Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...
‘We’re up to the test’: Ahead of 1965 Freedom Rally anniversary, MLK III offers his own rallying cry
Martin Luther King III and Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston reflected on the rally's legacy in a fireside chat ...
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Organizers to mark MLK Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston with march of their own
Local organizers plan to mark MLK Jr.'s historic 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston by holding a march of their own.
For The Future, By The Future: UNICEF Clubs Help The World’s Children
Young UNICEF Club members think globally and act locally, organizing community events to support the rights and needs of ...
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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 ...
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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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How Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’ inspired the Vatican through Pope Francis
“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ‘dream’ of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther ...
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.
‘He wanted to inspire’: Author educator and journalist Charles Coulter dies at 70
When Lewis Diuguid began working at The Kansas City Star as a reporter and photographer, the newsroom was a very different ...