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Category: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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King’s words can show us that killing public employees unions today would be immoral as well as foolish
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What the color line was to the 20th century, the faith line might be to the 21st.
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Excerpts and multimedia for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Beacon Press editor Gayatri Patnaik talks about the latest books in The King Legacy Series.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and peace demonstrations in the 1960s and the new millennium; in Mongolia, Cuba, and other developing nations; and since…
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Charles Euchner looks at the dueling marches in Washington, both being held on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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In this excerpt from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the March on Washington, the leaders of the March determine how to acknowledge the death of a leader in the movement for black civil rights.
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The King Institute shared with our blog scans of Martin Luther King’s program from the 1963 March on Washington.
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In honor of the holiday honoring the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., an excerpt from his final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
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An excerpt from Beacon Press Director Helene Atwan’s remarks at the announcement of The King Legacy, a new partnership between Beacon Press and the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr.
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