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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Despite advances the country has made since the Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr. was slain while fighting poverty and racism, “the age of bullies and bigots is not fully behind us,” former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday. The remark was one of two thinly veiled references to President Donald […]
ATLANTA (AP) — On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its patriarch when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. The loss has not gotten easier in 50 years, but his three surviving children each bear it on their […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Video shown Monday that was taken by a dashboard camera inside a sheriff’s vehicle shows it hitting a protester and driving away — the latest flashpoint following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Sacramento. The law enforcement official behind the wheel likely didn’t know he hit someone, […]
Domestic violence is so prevalent that there were three cases this week, that’s if the SUV crash turns out to be intentional and if accusations against rapper Fabolous are proven to be true. But a story out of Georgia is a particularly horrifying case even in the wake of such similar, prevalent crimes. Sherika Sharie”Redd” Bowman, […]
Howard University protesters continue to occupy an administration building for a fifth day in protests sparked by revelations that university employees had misappropriated financial aid money from 2007 to 2016. Students occupying the administration building have refused to leave until all nine of their demands are met, including the resignation of university president Wayne A.I. Frederick. […]
BOSTON (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech before his assassination 50 years ago this week will be read out aloud in Boston. Dozens of speakers aged 5 to 91 will take turns reading short passages from the speech at Monday afternoon’s remembrance on City Hall Plaza. King originally delivered it in Memphis, Tennessee, […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s state broadcaster says Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, prominent anti-apartheid activist and the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, has died. She was 81. Madikizela-Mandela was married to Nelson Mandela from 1958 to 1996. Mandela was imprisoned throughout most of their marriage and Madikizela-Mandela’s own activism against the apartheid regime led to her being imprisoned […]
In North Carolina, a Black man is dead after a white police officer shot and killed him during a traffic stop. NBC News reports, Officer D.E. McGuire shot and killed 60-year-old Edward Van McCrae after a physical struggle in which he asked McCrae to stop reaching for his gun. McCrae and two others traveling in the car […]
Our nation was forever changed on April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, just one day after he gave his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech that moved the hearts and souls of all those at the Mason Temple Church. Now, 50 years later, the […]
DUNDEE, Miss. (AP) — Wearing aqua-colored T-shirts and hydration backpacks, a group of teenagers on Saturday launched a 50-mile walk from northern Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, a tribute to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Escorted by police cars, support vans and a portable restroom, six […]