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Black reporter was there when MLK was killed

    Black reporter was there when MLK was killed

On April 4, 1968 – 50 years ago this week – a shot rang out aimed at the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Civil rights leader

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Editorial: 50 years after Dr. King’s death, the dream lives

    Editorial: 50 years after Dr. King’s death, the dream lives

Most of us know the story. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support the sanitation workers there, who were going on strike. King was

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Fifty years after King’s death, Rev. Barber says ‘pick up the baton’

    Fifty years after King’s death, Rev. Barber says ‘pick up the baton’

By Cash Michaels It is not widely known, but 50 years ago this week, on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was supposed to

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Commentary: Remembering King’s Legacy and women of the movement

    Commentary: Remembering King’s Legacy and women of the movement

By Julianne Malveaux Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a White aristocrat, 24-year-old William Devereux Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a cane, because she

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Editorial Cartoon: The Dream

    Editorial Cartoon: The Dream

Editorial cartoon by Ron Rogers

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Dodge chided for using King voiceover in Super Bowl ad

    Dodge chided for using King voiceover in Super Bowl ad

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire There were ads with Morgan Freeman rapping and ads with babies from around the world

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Editorial Cartoon: MLK as a Salesmean

Editorial cartoon by Ron Rogers

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Turning a day of service into a day of fun

    Turning a day of service into a day of fun

By Busta Brown This past Saturday morning, Jan. 20, HandsOn Northwest North Carolina helped turn a day of service into

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‘Young Dreamers’ honored

    ‘Young Dreamers’ honored

The Winston-Salem City Council and the Human Relations Commission honored two city residents as the 2018 recipients of the Martin

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Dyson paints King as man who made U.S. great

    Dyson paints King as man who made U.S. great

Despite being born in the segregated south when Blacks had few if any rights, even after he was targeted by

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