...Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Anointed Word Evangelistic Tabernacle Church in Lithonia to mark the slain civil rights leader's birthday. Last year was no different. After delivering the 2012 speech, Parker drove to Athens to pick...
...festivities.A quirk in the calendar pushed Obama's public swearing-in onto the national holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, and inaugural planners have taken pains to acknowledge that fact. Going into his second term, Obama seems...
...first female and first minority governor, said at the Columbia Urban League's annual breakfast recognizing the slain civil rights leader."I have been changed, all of us have been changed, and he would be so proud of South Carolina," she said...
...for Obama's inauguration ceremony Monday.Ponsford said the work he did involved reattaching leather to the slain civil rights leader's traveling Bible.King celebrationPolitical and social activist Tom Turnipseed will speak at the 11 a.m...
...initially asked that one marker commemorating the burning of Atlanta be moved away from a road named for the slain civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Other black leaders said the plaque should stay because Sherman's arrival meant the...
...nearly double that number might go to the National Mall to dedicate a long-anticipated monument honoring the slain civil rights leader.Augusta residents can join them by reserving a seat on a charter bus tour organized by Shirley Nixon."Young...
...War began and where tens of thousands were brought from Africa and sold into slavery is getting a memorial to slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King.A neighborhood in the city is designated the Martin Luther King Memorial District...
Martin Luther King's 1st grandchild born ATLANTA --- The first grandchild of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is a girl. A family spokeswoman says Arndrea Waters King, the wife of Martin Luther King III, gave birth...
...Some black leaders have criticized that remark, saying it suggests that Johnson deserved more credit than the slain civil rights leader for the passage and enactment of major civil rights legislation. Mrs. Clinton suggested Sunday that Mr. Obama's...
...four of them. The sixth was booked as a juvenile on sealed charges. Martin Luther King III, the son of the slain civil rights leader, said punishment might be in order for the six defendants, but "the justice system isn't applied the same...
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