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President-Elect Barack Obama is spending his Martin Luther King Jr. day visiting wounded troops and attending dinners honouring others, in his last day before assuming the Presidency of the United States. Obama...
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If President Barack Obama succeeds in shutting down Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within 12 months, he will be tempted to describe himself as an emancipator in the mold of Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately,...
Change. To be honest, it would be difficult to pinpoint exactly when most societal or political storms begin to form, effecting change.It could be argued, a storm formed about two hundred years before the...
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Installed on August 28, 2003, the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington, at the spot where Martin Luther King, Jr. stood before the Lincoln Memorial.
Usually I work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It has always been just another work day for me. This year, since my husband and I are unemployed, we heeded the call of the Obama USAservice.org group to do some work...
Today is a day set aside to remember the work of Martin Luther King Jr. It also marks the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration as president of the United States. Rather than look at the work of the late...
A dispute is flaring up between the conservative German chancellor Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat (I guess it is just a code name these days, given their policies) coalition partners.
Subject: Should...
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"Pro-immigration leaders of all races need to set aside their personal agendas in order to select one leader to become the voice and face of immigration. Who will step forward and become the Martin Luther...
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"DALLAS (AP) -- Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.
"I feel like there is no excuse for this type of ignorance,"...
"I knew I should have put a bet in for when we’d hear about college kids throwing ghetto parties on Martin Luther King Day. Absolutely despicable:
Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to...
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"You know, it seems like Martin Luther King Day is the one day when white people feel it's safe to talk about race. Or maybe some feel like it's their civic duty. For some reason, this has begun to strike me as lip service frankly. Particularly in the wake of Katrina, Bush's...
The conference on National Media Reform wrapped up after a weekend filled with speakers, and talks directed at the state of the internet & national media as a whole. A few other articles I came across:Missing...
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ""Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus; and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters in life. At points, he wanted...
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"What is often forgotten about Martin Luther King was that he was the voice the working class in America, black and white. Which is what the conservatives in the United States will never fogive him for."
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