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This June 5, 1968 file photo shows Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaking his final words to supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments before he was shot on June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel, left, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, right. Football player Roosevelt Grier is at right rear. Associated Press Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas was on a one-night political assignment in June 1968 to cover Kennedy’s victory in the California presidential primary when mayhem unfolded before his eyes. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)

The primary season that changed my life

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

The climate crisis must reunite America

Peter Dale Scott
Stephen Miller and Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty Images/Salon)

I spent MLK Day with Stephen Miller

Chauncey DeVega
Martin Luther King Jr. and Bernie Sanders (Getty Images/Salon)

Did MLK fuel Bernie's idea of justice?

Matthew Rozsa
September 1964: American clergyman and civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The myths that diminish MLK's legacy

Eric McDaniel
Martin Luther King Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd before the Lincoln Memorial during the Freedom March in Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. The widely quoted speech became one of his most famous. (Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

Why MLK detested moderates

Bob Hennelly
Martin Luther King, Jr. (AP/Bill Ingraham)

What King can teach us today

Frank Joyce - Alternet
Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta (right) and John Lewis (far right), lead a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965 (AP)

Huckabee Sanders "explains" civil rights

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Ira Chernus - TomDispatch.com
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Jones: I'm just like MLK Jr.

Taylor Link
Susan B. Anthony; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Wikimedia/AP)

Dead leftists, right heroes

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Spencer Platt/Mireia Triguero Roura)

So far, we're losing

D. Watkins
Donald Trump; Martin Luther King, Jr. (Reuters/Rick Wilking/AP/Bill Ingraham/Salon)

From MLK to Trump: how and why

Chauncey DeVega
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. (AP/Jack Thornell)

And Still I Rise History Redux

Melanie McFarland
Henry Louis Gates Jr. participates in the "Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise" panel during the PBS Television Critics Association summer press tour on Friday, July 29, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) (Richard Shotwell/invision/ap)

Gates on black history

Scott Timberg
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

O'Reilly isn't racist, he says

Elizabeth Preza - Alternet
Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way" (HBO)

Lessons from "All the Way"

Matthew Rozsa
Jesse Watters (Credit: Fox News)

They don't know white!

Scott Eric Kaufman
(AP: Steve Helber)

Trump's dedication to MLK

Sophia Tesfaye
Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/Charles Kelly)

MLK's worst hard time

Obery M. Hendricks
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. (AP)

The power of "we"

Rev. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Martin Luther King Jr, Barack Obama (AP/Bill Ingraham/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

They never escape white rage

Jason Sokol
(AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Bull Connor spat in my face

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
(AP/Reuters/Anthony Quintano/Randall Hill/Photo montage by Salon)

The year in racial paradox

Andrew O'Hehir
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