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10 years after Freddie Gray's death, calls for police reform and racial equity persist in Baltimore
BALTIMORE (AP) — It was almost instinctual for Ray Kelly to jump into action when he heard about a group of high school ...
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"The question comes from a place of scarcity" — David Oyelowo speaks on playing Martin Luther King Jr. as a British actor
Actor and director David Oyelowo shared his thoughts about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 historical drama Selma.
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MLK Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South with 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 ...
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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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WATCH: Project CommUNITY: Letter from a Birmingham jail
From Scraps to LetterMartin Luther King Jr. penned his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963. Sign up for our ...
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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‘An anemic democracy’: Looking back on Martin Luther King Jr’s sermon in Thompson Chapel
Sixty-four years ago today, a crowd of eager students piled into Thompson Chapel for regular Sunday Services. Curious ...