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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Pete Seeger: Beating Flagpoles Into Ploughshares
Pete Seeger, RIP and God bless. As you used to say, take it easy, but take it.
A Dream Deferred: “This Rigid Refusal to Look at Ourselves”
“Harlem” remains a powerful and necessary questionu2014and a disturbing harbinger, as Hughes answers his opening question with more questions.
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Economic Justice Is the Solution
A paradigm shift is taking place. It is coming from the awareness that all of our crises are connected to an economy rigged for the wealthiest.
Self-Congratulatory Politicians Make a Mockery of MLK Day Celebrations
It was profoundly unsettling to watch those that represent the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s opponents and assassins take up his mantle on Monday and exploit the …
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
The King Center's call for nonviolence was heard in Kabul, Afghanistan.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Forbes 400 Are as Rich as All US African-Americans, and More
The richest 400 people in our nation have as much wealth as the entire African-American population in the United States, and more.
You Are Not One but Many
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Has Martin Luther King’s “Dream” Been Realized?
Nearly half of those who responded to a poll said a lot more needs to be done before people in the United States would "be judged not by the …
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Beyond the Dreamer
As the country marks Martin Luther King Jr.'s 85th birthday, a veteran activist explains why it would be a mistake to remember King as only a great civil rights …
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When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns
King became an icon of pacifism, but he also believed in confrontational direct action.