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Topic: Martin Luther King Jr.

Presidents Obama, Biden and Clinton along with many dignitaries honored the life of Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday in Chicago, challenging people to carry on his legacy of civil rights and faith. (Scott Olso n/ Getty Images)

Leaders gather to honor Jesse Jackson

CK Smith
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MLK would be appalled by our health care

Tiffany D. Joseph
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit circa 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. (Dozier Mobley/Getty Images)

MLK's fight for universal basic income

Tarah Williams, Andrew Bloeser - The Conversation
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
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Muhammad Ali speaking with reporters after his 1967 federal indictment for refusing to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

What became of Black celebrity activism?

Jerel Ezell
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

VP: "All life matters, born and unborn"

Igor Derysh
Kellyanne Conway (AP/Alex Brandon)

Conway compares Trump to MLK

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Scott Olson)

Don Jr: My sacrifices like fallen troops

Igor Derysh
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Cornel West and Donald Trump (Chauncey DeVega/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

Cornel West on hope, struggle and Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the Climate Forum at Georgetown University, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Andrew Yang 2020 — but not for president

Bob Hennelly
Jerry Falwell and Jerry Falwell Jr. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)

Falwell sex scandal: Right won't care

Amanda Marcotte
College students protesting (Getty/Scott Olson)

Resistance can't be tweeted

Jim Sleeper
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(Getty/Salon)

America needs a new national story

Jim Sleeper
Sara Nelson, the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants (Getty/Salon)

Labor bosses blinked, one voice rang out

Bob Hennelly
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated. (AP)

Martin Luther King Jr., union man

Peter Cole - The Conversation
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Public schools to ease class differences

Jack Schneider - The Conversation
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Ryan Zinke (AP/Adam Beam)

Zinke just compared Robert E. Lee to MLK

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Muhammad Ali (Getty/Alex Wong/AP Photo)

Trump's racist Muhammad Ali troll

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump; Richard Nixon (AP/Matt Rourke/Ron Edmonds/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump/Nixon's race-based hate strategy

Thom Hartmann, Lamar Waldron - Alternet
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks between seven-year-old Eva Gracelemon, left, and 10-year-old Aritha Willis as he escorts black school children to formerly all-white schools in Grenada, Miss., Tuesday morning, Sept. 20, 1966. (AP)

The radical message of MLK

Paul Harvey
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President Lyndon B Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty/Hulton Archive)

The truth about LBJ and MLK

Phillip F. Nelson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; W.H. Auden; Dorothy Day (AP/Getty/Salon)

The fate of the Christian intellectual

Jay Parini
Martin Luther King Jr., flanked by his wife Coretta and John Lewis, leads a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (AP)

The Civil Rights movement, weaponized

Jeanne Theoharis
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/Tribune/Salon)

Why MLK would hate the Tribune deal

Bob Hennelly
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