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Raleigh remembers Martin Luther King Jr. as a leader of ‘radical love’ with march, sermon
Hundreds gathered in Raleigh on Monday for the city’s 45th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., marching through downtown before an ecumenical service in his honor. “Dr. King took America’s ...
Near church where he once preached, Paterson remembers Martin Luther King Jr.
On a piece of hallowed ground in Paterson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a sermon in 1968. Just days later, in Memphis, Tennessee, his life was cut short. But in the neighborhood, his spirit is ...
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32 things you may not know about Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1934, after King Sr. attended an international Baptist conference in Germany where he became inspired by the teachings of 16th-century religious thinker Martin Luther, he changed both his name ...
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Peter Johnson: What I know about MLK that is not in the history books
My studying Aristotle, Plato and Socrates stemmed from him quoting them and many of the forward thinkers of that day in his sermons ... next morning Dr. Martin Luther King Sr.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... Y’all need jobs,'” recalled Dr. Warren H. Stewart Sr., senior pastor at First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix.
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The content of King’s character? It was ferocious.
Jonathan Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The Martin Luther King Jr. federal ... he would have presented a Sunday sermon called “Why ...
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Unity march and rally will highlight Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Tuscaloosa
Participants will begin lining up at 11:15 a.m. More:Looking back, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s Tuscaloosa sermon The Tuscaloosa Pan-Hellenic Council will serve as grand marshals for ...