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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
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"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
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"A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, 'This is not just.'"
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New York Times
April 16, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The name Martin Luther King Jr. can evoke lofty images of peace and unity, of demonstrators marching for civil rights, of black and white children playing together. But add the word “Boulevard” or “Drive” after his name, and, in many cities, starkly different images can flood people'sÃâà...
San Bernardino County Sun
April 15, 2018
”I feel that Dr. Martin Luther King has inspired me because he is such a great leader. I have also looked up to him as my idol. He had accomplished so much and so many things but also made such a great speech of them all called, 'I have a Dream,'” Gray wrote. “He have made me the person I am today byÃâà...
WGN Radio
April 14, 2018
Author James Swanson writes Chasing King's Killer, a book about the days in the lives of the prophetic Martin Luther King, Jr., and of his killer, James Earl Ray. But, he begins by telling John the story of a black woman who was after King. Audio Player.
BBC News
April 14, 2018
Jacqueline Smith has spent 30 years protesting outside the motel where Martin Luther King was fatally shot in 1968. After being forcibly removed from the premises when it closed, she has devoted her life to protecting his legacy. As the motel door of room 303 was prised open with a wrench, four police officers burst intoÃâà...
KCRA Sacramento
April 12, 2018
The city has dedicated a plaza to the civil rights icon, which includes a statue of King. Residents said there's still work that needs to be done to realize King's dream. Get the full story in the video above. Stockton honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. Loading more articles... Advertisement. Against all odds:Ãâà...
ChristianityToday.com
April 11, 2018
Most biographies of Martin Luther King Jr. have focused on King the civil rights icon, spotlighting his role from the Montgomery bus boycott onward. In The Seminarian, Patrick Parr instead gives us an extended look at the formative years of the preacher's postgraduate education at Crozer Theological Seminary near Chester,Ãâà...
CNN
April 5, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the speeches he delivered continue to resonate today, 50 years after his assassination. They were also key in bringing about landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 andÃâà...
The Boston Globe
April 4, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed the Mass. legislation during his visit to Boston on April 22, 1965. Dr. King led a march through the city to protest segregated housing conditions and racially imbalanced schools, and spoke at Boston Common and the State House during his visit. (Paul Connell/Globe Staff).
NPR
April 4, 2018
WALTER CRONKITE: Good evening. Dr. Martin Luther King, the apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in Memphis, Tenn. Police have issued an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed young white man seen running from the scene. N. KING: That man was James Earl Ray.
NPR
April 4, 2018
Authorities have investigated the death of Martin Luther King Jr. five times since his murder in April 1968. Congress, district attorneys and the Justice Department all have concluded that James Earl Ray shot King as the civil rights icon stood on a motel balcony in Memphis. That hasn't stopped conspiracyÃâà...
The Guardian
April 4, 2018
Martin Luther King was assassinated 50 years ago. This is the powerful, prophetic speech he made to a packed church in Memphis, Tennessee, on 3 April 1968, just a day before he was assassinated. King called for unity, economic actions, boycotts and non-violent protests, while challenging the US to liveÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 4, 2018
Martin Luther King said the US would have to "undergo a radical revolution of values" that would cause the country to question the fairness and justice of its past and present policies, its glaring economic inequality, and the spiritual death that comes with spending more on the military than programs ofÃâà...
ABC News
April 4, 2018
Yolanda and her parents, including Martin Luther King III, spoke to “GMA” from Memphis, where a huge crowd is expected to turn out at the Lorraine Motel, the site where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on April 4, 1968. Later today, bells will toll across the nation and prayers will be said as Americans of allÃâà...
Politico
April 4, 2018
A woman weeps for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after addressing thousands of University of Wisconsin students at a campus rally in Madison. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. AP Photo. 2018-04-03T10:33-0400 2018-04-03T10:34-0400. Civil rights leaders Will D. Campbell (right)Ãâà...
The Atlantic
April 4, 2018
In the months leading up to his assassination 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made some of his most searing pronouncements against white supremacy, the Vietnam War, and U.S. imperialism. But more than at any other time in his life, King's final focus was on poverty and economic injustice.
CNBC
April 4, 2018
"I remember that speech that Martin Luther King gave. That was one of the most inspiring speeches I've ever heard. Took me right out of my seat," Buffett said in the HBO documentary "Becoming Warren Buffett." "In that speech, he talked about 'truth forever on the scaffold, long forever on the throne, but thatÃâà...
TIME
April 4, 2018
Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Yet, while his birthday has become a national holiday and schoolchildren across the nation and the world know the words of his most famous speeches, there are still many aspects of his life and work thatÃâà...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later, His Battles Live On. In his last years, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was grappling with many issues: workers' rights, a sprawling protest movement, persistent segregation and poverty. We inherited them all. April 4, 2018. skip ad. Martin Luther King Jr. remains frozenÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 3, 2018
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, one day before his assassination. Fifty years ago this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of the best known, yet mostly unheard, speeches in AmericanÃâà...
TIME
April 3, 2018
Wednesday marks 50 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the second-floor balcony near his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he had been supporting black sanitation workers on strike for better pay and working conditions. Fifty years later, some questions linger about whyÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 3, 2018
In his absence, I grasped at his stories—and clung most fiercely to his account of Martin Luther King Jr.'s trip to Harlem Hospital in New York City. It was one of the only stories in which he took explicit pride in being black. But as I began excavating it, I stumbled upon aspects of my grandfather's own fight forÃâà...
History
April 3, 2018
Their job was to stop riots and looting from breaking out after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.—an event that had taken place seven months earlier. Though the city's black residents had rioted briefly after King's murder and the mayor had requested a National Guard presence, the city was now atÃâà...
The Independent
April 3, 2018
In the 50 years since his death, the descendants of civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr have fought to carry on his legacy – but also fought with each other. Martin Luther King II, Bernice King, and Dexter King have each championed different social causes – and different ideas about what toÃâà...
ABC News
April 3, 2018
Andrew Young, the former ambassador to the United Nations, Georgia congressman and mayor of Atlanta, told ABC News that King instigated the mischief in a ground-floor room that his brother, A.D. King, was checked in on April 4, 1968. "When I walked in the door, he [Martin Luther King Jr.] said, 'WhereÃâà...
New York Times
April 3, 2018
“I have some really bad news,” she whispered. “Martin Luther King Jr. has been murdered.” The jarring word of Dr. King's assassination on April 4, 1968, is one of those rare life-changing moments that is chiseled in stone for millions of Americans. Yet the memory I have of this great man diverges from howÃâà...
ABC News
April 3, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. shot in Memphis ... taken to a hospital ... in surgery. I thought: Maybe he'll survive. Maybe it wasn't so bad. But I don't think I really believed that. The dreadful suspense didn't last very long. Word soon came that he was dead. I don't remember how I heard that. Probably from my parents,Ãâà...
The Nation.
April 3, 2018
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, accelerated the racist backlash of the late 1960s. Along with the murder of Robert F. Kennedy two months later, this tragic trajectory led to the election of Richard M. Nixon, who escalated the Vietnam War and unleashed police and FBIÃâà...
New York Times
April 1, 2018
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., more than most civil rights leaders, understood the singular role that television played in documenting the brutality of racial violence on African-Americans and eliciting sympathy from white viewers. As three new television documentaries marking the 50th anniversary ofÃâà...
The Conversation US
March 31, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States. His birthday is celebrated as a national holiday. Tributes are paid to him on his death anniversary each April, and his legacy is honored in multiple ways. But from my perspectiveÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 31, 2018
This excerpt appears in the special MLK issue print edition with the headline “On Equality” and was adapted from Martin Luther King Jr.'s book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Ãâé 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Ãâé renewed 1995 Coretta Scott King. All works by Martin Luther King Jr. have been reprintedÃâà...
Indianapolis Star
March 31, 2018
On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy visited Indianapolis on a presidential campaign stop. Before giving his speech, he learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination that same day. The following is the full speech Kennedy gave to the crowd, as provided by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library:.
Kansas City Star
March 31, 2018
As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, black religious and political leaders in Kansas City are turning to the ballot box in an effort to rename The Paseo in honor of the civil rights leader. The local head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) saidÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 30, 2018
In this April 23, 1965 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., under umbrella at left, addresses civil rights marchers on Boston Common after a march from the Roxbury section of the city to protest segregation in schools, unequal employment and housing concerns. Guest columnist James D. Robenalt writesÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 30, 2018
April 4th is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. What did King's life and death mean to you? Where were you when you heard the news of his murder? Please share your thoughts in 200 words or less, add your phone number for verification (we won't publish it) and send them toÃâà...
CNN
March 30, 2018
(CNN) — Fifty years ago this April, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His tragic death has made King a saintly figure, but there's one place where his everyday life gets as much due as his big protests and dramatic speeches -- Bimini. Bimini is the closest island of theÃâà...
WSB Atlanta
March 30, 2018
ATLANTA - On April 4th, 1968, a shot rang out in Memphis that changed the world forever when an assassin's bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Exactly 50 years from that day, on April 4 starting at 8 p.m., Channel 2 Action News will remember Dr. King with a primetime special honoring his life andÃâà...
NBC4i.com
March 30, 2018
Just ahead of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, an Italian artist has paid tribute to the civil rights icon with a massive portrait of his face in a field using a tractor. Artist Dario Gambarin recently used his plowing skills to make a portrait of King in a field in Castognaro, outside theÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
March 30, 2018
"The Mountaintop," a 10-ton metal sculpture dating to 1977, was brought out of obscurity Friday morning and moved to Memphis' new Dr. Martin Luther King Reflection Park. The virtually forgotten piece of public art, created in King's memory by Chicago artist Richard Hunt, becomes the focal point of a newÃâà...
UW Today
March 29, 2018
Michael Honey, author of “To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.” As the 50th anniversary approaches of the murder of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, University of Washington historian Michael Honey reminds us in a new book that economic justice andÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 29, 2018
(AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi) In this March 2, 1965, file photo, The Rev. Martin Luther King speaks at a Charter Day ceremony at Howard University in Washington. By Randolph Marshall Hollerith | Religion News Service. Ãâ÷ Published: 4 hours ago. Updated: 4 hours ago. Washington • Every preacher I've everÃâà...
TIME
March 29, 2018
I was 15 the first time I heard Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. preach. He was the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., leading the city's bus boycott, and his weekly sermons were carried on the radio. This particular sermon was called “Paul's Letter to American Christians.” It wasÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 29, 2018
(AP Photo/Charles Kelly, File) In this April 3, 1968, file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his last public appearance at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. The following day King was assassinated on his motel balcony. Travelers will find a variety of events and sites in Memphis and elsewhereÃâà...
History
March 29, 2018
People had gathered to hear Martin Luther King, Jr., who was back in Memphis to offer inspiration for an ongoing struggle that had celebrated recent victories. King knew that storms pass and that joy comes in the morning, for he had witnessed the pain of water cannons and police dogs; he remembered theÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
March 29, 2018
Tom Jones had seen Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. many times before, on flickering television screens and in newspaper photos from far-off places like Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, civil rights battlegrounds that had made the charismatic leader a bigger-than-life icon. But now here he was, slumped inÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
March 28, 2018
After Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life was snuffed out by an assassin 50 years ago, my father spent his afternoons basking in the glow of the fire lit by his words. It was a fire that smoldered in the souls of African-Americans like my father, people who lived to see the powerful words of a black preacher topple aÃâà...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King gave his final speech. Did he conclude by predicting his assassination? It was a bin lorry that brought Martin Luther King to Memphis the week he was killed. Two months earlier, two black bin-men - Echol Cole and Robert Walker - took shelter in their lorry during a storm.
OperaWire
March 26, 2018
Opera Toledo is set to showcase Douglas Tappin's “I Dream” starting on April 6, 7, and 8 at the Valentine Theatre. The production will also feature a Student Night performance on Wednesday, April 4, 2018. The work recounts the final 36 hours in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “We at Toledo Opera areÃâà...
FOX Illinois
March 26, 2018
The group reenacted the historic march led by Dr. King to raise awareness of difficulties black voters faced in 1965. Once at the Old State Capitol residents danced, sang, and listened to one of Dr. King's speeches. 4-H Youth Developer, Erica Austin, said work still needs to be done for the equality. “Dr. King had a dream,Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
By the time I knew properly about Martin Luther King, he was already dead, and yet houses all over the world held on to his name; people on the street spoke his name. If somebody said something racist to me, my mum would half quote Martin Luther King. Don't you let anyone tell you… one day we'll all beÃâà...
KOMO News
March 25, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.'s granddaughter speaks at March for Our Lives in D.C.. by Stephen Pimpo Jr./ABC7. MLKGrandaughter.JPG. AA. WASHINGTON (ABC7) —. Martin Luther King Jr.'s granddaughter Yolanda took the stage to speak to the hundreds of thousands of people at the March for Our Lives in D.C.. For fullÃâà...
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