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Topic: Martin Luther King (page 5)

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Why Obama can't show his rage

Sonali Chakravarti
Police in riot gear detain a demonstrator in Ferguson, Missouri, Aug. 19, 2014. (Reuters/Joshua Lott)

“I am not afraid to die”

Brittney Cooper
Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks at a Selma, Ala., church in January 1965. (AP)

Guns made civil rights happen

Charles E. Cobb Jr.
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/J. Scott Applewhite/Reuters/Joe Skipper/Salon)

Social conservatives' bad news

Heather Digby Parton
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Rand Paul (AP/Susan Walsh)

Rand Paul's "youth" snow job

Elias Isquith

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Ronald Reagan, Stokely Carmichael (AP/Basic Civitas Books)

Reagan meets Black Power

Peniel E. Joseph

It’s still LBJ's America

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (AP/Bill Ingraham)

Ian Blair
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. (AP)

Blackface in my 4th grade play

Brittney Cooper
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. testifies before the Senate Government Operations subcommittee, Dec. 15, 1966. (AP)

Stop being "colorblind"

Ian Haney-Lopez

Mark Engler, Paul Engler - Waging Nonviolence
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Michael Eric Dyson, Martin Luther King, Jr. (AP/Evan Vucci)

How we get Dr. King wrong

Josh Eidelson
Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich (AP/Dennis Cook/Reuters/Mike Theiler/Salon)

How the right fought MLK day

David L. Chappell
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Nugent's outrageously racist

Elias Isquith
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David Sirota
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John Boehner and Eric Cantor (AP)

They have no leaders

Brian Beutler
President Barack Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP/Evan Vucci)

A justifiably political speech

Brian Beutler
Barack Obama speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Alex Halperin
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Ariel Dorfman
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Katie McDonough
(AP)

Marches won't cut it anymore!

Brittney Cooper

Christopher Phelps - Dissent
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington, D.C. (Wikimedia Commons)

Alyssa Figueroa - Alternet
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