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Ebenezer Baptist: MLK’s Church Makes New History With Warnock Victory

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How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
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The Great Debate: Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Robert F. Williams

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Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
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Martin Luther King Jr. with children.

Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

Applying King to our contemporary moment.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March on Washington in 1963.

How a Heritage of Black Preaching Shaped MLK's Voice in Calling for Justice

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.
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Recently unearthed surveillance documents show how the FBI tried to destroy the Poor People’s Movement.
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on August 12, 2019

The Civil Rights Activist So Close to Martin Luther King Jr. She Was Thought of as His ‘Other Wife'

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The Language of the Unheard

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Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

The Day Martin Luther King Jr. Died

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.
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Martin Luther King Jr. at a podium.
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Colleges’ Reluctant Embrace of MLK Day

The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.
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