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WCHB Radio Host Angelo Henderson was honored today by the The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Task Force, Inc. with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award.
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Yesterday was all about echoes. Echoes from voices past continuing into beyond. A sea of tens of thousands cheer and chanting as they looked up at video monitors showing the first family walking down a pathway of Martin Luther King’s most inspiring quotes en route to a ceremony to dedicate a memorial to honor his legacy. Past meets presents meets future.
The Obamas stopped directly in front of the imposing 30-foot monument
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maya Angelou is the latest prominent Black figure to voice reservations with the newly erected Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington D.C.
Angelou, who consulted on the project, has an issue with a quote on the wall by the Tidal Basin of the memorial that reads: “I was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness.”
“The line makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit,”
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The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation’s leadership today announced the ceremonial dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be held on Sunday, October 16.
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A new book titled “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy,” says that the former first lady didn’t think too highly of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
She called him “phony” and “tricky” in a 1964 interview in which she spoke about life in the White House.
Read MoreFormer First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy described King as “phony” and “tricky” in a 1964 interview just made public in a
Join Mildred Gaddis, Rev. Al Sharpton, Tom Joyner and the National Action Network for the 2011 ‘March For Jobs and Justice’ in Washington D.C. and visit to the new Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.
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Inside Detroit takes trip to the nation’s capital. Mildred Gaddis interviews with Morehouse College President, Dr. Robert Franklin.
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A majority of Americans say Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality has been realized in the USA, although a significant divide between Black and white people’s perceptions of equality and race relations still exists, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll suggests.
The Poll found that most Americans– 90% of whites and 85% of Blacks– say civil rights for Black people have improved in the USA during their lifetime, although far
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GREELEY, Colo. — A member of the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education is broadcasting an attack on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on his radio station.
Brett Reese reads a listener’s letter on 104.7 FM Pirate radio that calls the slain civil rights leader a sexual degenerate, a communist and modern-day plastic god.
“Just a sexual degenerate, an America hating communist and a criminal betrayer of even the interest
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