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MLK’s dream inspires a new march, and a president
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama led civil rights pioneers Wednesday in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech roused the 250,000 people who rallied there decades ago for racial equality.
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Marching for King’s dream: ‘The task is not done, the journey is not complete’
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King’s famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled.
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President Obama honors Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin
The chief strategist for the 1963 March on Washington was gay in an era when same-sex relations were widely reviled in American society.
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Bernice King’s gay-inclusive speech at MLK rally surprises LGBT participants
ATLANTA — Bernice King took the stage today at Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. rally and included gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people among the various groups she said need to come together to fulfill her father’s legacy.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Equality is our greatest height to achieve
Equality is a cause America has been pursuing for years.
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The Grio: Rick Perry retreat co-host says MLK deserved no credit on civil rights
While hundreds of thousands of Americans converge on the National Mall to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend as the president dedicates a memorial to the slain civil rights leader, Rick Perry, the newly minted Republican Party presidential front-runner, will be attending a retreat with a man who believes King deserves no such honor.