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In response to Donald Trump's order banning DEI initiatives, the DIA has paused special event programs and related events, including for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
But King, the oldest son of Martin Luther King, Jr., said Black men alone do not shoulder the responsibility for Democrats ...
In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ... 1965, a procession of 2,500 marchers, both Black and white, set out once again to cross the Pettus Bridge and confronted barricades and state troopers.
It is often forgotten that Martin Luther King Jr. was a deeply patriotic American. In King’s day, as in ours, there were influential Black Americans — men like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael ...
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more Federal agencies have struggled to interpret Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order ending DEI programs ...
In August as he ran for president a third time, Donald Trump compared his crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021 to the throngs who gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech. Instead of ...
On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we remember not only his iconic speeches but the depth and radicalism of his work. Often sanitized in mainstream memory ...
In July 2024, a color photo of what appeared to be American activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, went viral on X , garnering more than 16.9 million views and ...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) — The Grand Junction Black Citizens and Friends organization hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr. march on Monday, January 20.
In some ways it’s a sick irony – the juxtaposition of Trump being inaugurated on Monday, the same day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. King was a champion for civil and human rights.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department's intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical ...