Belafonte Marks Martin Luther King Day
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When Harry Belafonte met the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1950s, he promised to always assist in his mission.
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A white separatist group planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena is suing the town, claiming officials are violating the Constitution by asking participants not to bring firearms, changing the parade route by one block and requiring the posting of a bond.
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They are some of the most famous words in American history: "I have a dream ..." And the man who said them has become an icon. Martin Luther King Jr. has certainly gotten his share of attention this year, the subject of a presidential campaign controversy over his legacy that blew up just around the time of the holiday created to honor him.
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The a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock will perform their Martin Luther King Day concert at Carnegie Hall.
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London: People in Brixton, the heart of Britain's Caribbean community - and indeed millions of his fans across the world - will be marking Bob Marley's birthday today.
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John Legend, Lil Mama, Corinne Bailey Rae and gospel singer Shirley Caesar paid their "Respect" to Aretha Franklin in a musical tribute to the Queen of Soul.
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A small group of Ku Klux Klansmen and their supporters demonstrated Saturday against a local daylong tribute to racial diversity and harmony during the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
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Questions are being raised after Mitt Romneyâs statement about his father marching with Martin Luther King Jr.
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Bluesman B.B. King, who picked cotton  before picking up a guitar, and John "Buck" O'Neil, the  grandson of a slave who became Major League Baseball's first  black coach, are among this year's Presidential Medal of  Freedom recipients, the White House said on Thursday.
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Mitt Romney never marched through Detroit with Martin Luther King, as the Romney campaign now acknowledges. Nor is it true that the GOP candidate "saw" his father, a former governor of Michigan, join King on a subsequent civil rights march, as he has been claiming on the presidential campaign trail....
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JENA, Louisiana  - About 25 white supremacists marched through this central Louisiana town on Monday in a white power rally on the U.S. national holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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Do you remember where you were when you heard that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated?
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On one side: Abe Lincoln, Davy Crockett, poet Robert Frost. On the other: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr.
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NEW YORK -- Wearing the traditional black-and-white checked headdress that Yasser Arafat had made his personal trademark, Linda Sarasour, a Palestinian-American who works in a part of Brooklyn with many Arab residents, yesterday described the controversial leader as ''our Martin Luther King.&quot;
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A march that brought thousands of people Saturday to the grave site of Martin Luther King Jr. also drew a few dozen protesters who claimed organizers were hijacking the slain civil rights leader's legacy to promote an anti-gay marriage agenda.
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War, poverty, violence and social injustice are dampening Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy as the nation prepares to celebrate the slain civil rights leader's birthday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told a church gathering Sunday.
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By Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 20--People of Grand Forks celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington 75 years ago with a program in the City Auditorium. In those days, birthdays of Washington and Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12 were separate holidays.