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Warren J. Blumenfeld: National Monument to Peace and Peacemakers

2012-05-23T10:15:33Z

The United States embodies a beautiful and noble concept, a vibrant idea, a vital and enduring vision. While we as a country may be involved in a process and a progression toward that vision, we have not yet attained and reached it. The country is, rather, still a work in process.

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Abhishek Raman: The Lady’s Leap of Faith

2012-05-22T12:50:24Z

Aung San Suu Kyi, like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, shows how one's faith and secular values can provide a much-needed moral compass for fighting social injustice in our world. Her latest move toward reconciliation is a realization of the opportunity to unshackle Burma.

Read more: Interfaith, Burma, Buddhism, Burma Human Rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Myanmar, Democracy, Gandhi, Religion News

2nd-Grader Who Dressed As MLK Wants Apology From School

2012-05-21T14:50:29Z

Sean King, a Colorado Springs second-grader at Meridian Ranch Elementary school, found himself in hot water last when he was pulled out of class for d...

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2nd Grader's MLK Tribute Gets Him In Big Trouble

2012-05-17T10:59:02Z

A Colorado Springs second-grader at Meridian Ranch Elementary school found himself in hot water Wednesday when he was pulled out of class for dressing...

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

2012-05-14T15:23:39Z

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Omid Safi: What Would Dr. King Say About Amendment One?

2012-05-08T11:05:08Z

Martin's own struggles focused on racial, economic and peace concerns, and he did not opine much on gender and sexuality matters. However, there was a person very close to him who has spoken out courageously and clearly on this topic.

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Ken Blackwell: The Secularization of the MLK Monument

2012-04-26T16:18:42Z

Even though Dr. King was a Baptist minister and his history-altering speeches about civil liberties are saturated with references to natural rights and profound theological constructs, all 14 quotes carefully etched into his stone monument completely eschew references to God.

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Netosh Jones: Rollercoasters and Life's Lessons

2012-04-17T12:02:19Z

Dr. Frazier applied her physics expertise in a way that captured our students' imaginations. The students were enthralled by the topic and Dr. Frazier's own enthusiasm for the subject.

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Bringing the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement Into 21st Century Classrooms

2012-04-12T11:40:44Z

How do we encourage young people at home and abroad, in South Africa and now those young people heavily invested in the as yet unsettled Arab Spring, to "keep on keepin' on," as the footsoldiers of the Civil Rights Movement used to pledge?

Read more: Black History, Civil Rights Movement, African-American History, African Americans, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Segregation, American History, Civil Rights Leaders, Nelson Mandela, Apartheid, Rosa Parks, South Africa, Education News

The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D.: Build Multiracial Congregations: Heal Racism

2012-04-06T13:37:23Z

Racism and profiling can seem overwhelming. But when we gather rooted in our faith and connected to others who seek change, our spirits and our communities may take steps toward transformation.

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Alex Emslie: What Would King Have Said About Foreclosures, Trayvon?

2012-04-06T13:13:52Z

San Franciscans gathered at City Hall April 5 to commemorate the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and express outrage at the slaying of Trayvon Martin, local homicides claiming the lives of three young men this week, and "economic violence" resulting in foreclosures and poverty.

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Jose Suarez: A Cuban-American's Appeal: Keep Martin Luther King's Dream Alive

2012-04-04T18:02:35Z

This tax day, join us in honoring Dr. King in deed, rather than name, and stand up for our city where people live in "inordinate wealth" while most of us struggle.

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Van Jones: Remembering MLK: Standing Up to the Dream Killers

2012-04-04T14:27:00Z

Today, April 4th, 2012, marks the 44th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. It's a good time to reflect on the state of not only Dr. King's dream, but the American dream at large.

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Maxim Thorne: The Julian Bond Philanthropy Song

2012-04-02T00:52:27Z

Take a moment to enjoy the American philanthropic Julian Bond song for the success that it is. The lessons of his song will have great meaning in the civil rights and social justice movements of today.

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Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry: MLK, Trayvon And Jesus

2012-04-03T16:46:56Z

what do Trayvon Martin, Dr. King and Jesus have in common? They were all killed in the midst of a political climate that justified fear and legalized hate.

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Doug Bradley: The MLK Tribute That Never Was

2012-04-03T13:13:04Z

Dionne Warwick looked breathtakingly beautiful that night. Her voice was even more radiant and heavenly. And then our lives changed forever. "Martin Luther King's been assassinated."

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Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.: Resurrecting The Cause For Which King Died

2012-04-02T18:47:22Z

The very week he died, MLK was in the process of planning the Poor People's Campaign to go to Washington, D.C. to document that poor people in this nation are citizens just like everybody.

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Dan P. Morrison: How Ordinary a Hero Can Be

2012-04-02T17:21:52Z

But heros are all just people. They get out of bed every morning and put on their pants, skirts and saris like everyone else. Gandhi and King had a thing for the ladies and my mom doesn't always recycle properly.

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Mark I. Pinsky: Justice For Trayvon Martin: Where Are Our White Faith Leaders?

2012-03-26T18:06:38Z

In the halcyon days of the 1960s civil rights movement, no march, protest or demonstration in the South was complete without white ministers, priests and rabbis. But in the case of Trayvon Martin, local white faith leaders have been missing from action.

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Stanley Weiss: Getting Past the Symbolism of Aung San Suu Kyi

2012-03-07T15:23:00Z

Before we turn the page, it is important to see past Aung San Suu Kyi as a symbol of moral courage to evaluate the substance of her positions -- and by extension, U.S. policy -- the past two decades.

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John Hope Bryant: Dr. King's Dream: 700 Credit Score Communities

2012-03-06T16:55:00Z

Economic justice is at the root of all social justice. Today, we must make Dr. King's dream real by actually making free enterprise and capitalism work for the poor and the under-served.

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Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.: The Civil Rights Movement and Public Religion

2012-03-05T17:33:13Z

Freedom as an American cultural value and freedom as a religious value are related but they are not the same. Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion.

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Andy Watts: Thoughts On The Drum Major Instinct In An Election Year

2012-03-05T11:58:11Z

As MLK explains it, "Drum Major Instinct" is the desire to be first, to lead the parade. It desires recognition, importance, attention and being first. The consequences of this unharnessed instinct are devastating.

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Matt Pournazarian: Clarence B. Jones Shares Wisdom, Memories at Viewpoint School

2012-03-01T12:56:47Z

In a world in which hate-filled politics and growing inter-class tensions fill article word-counts, a message like the one delivered by Dr. Jones was and is necessary.

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TODAY: The Place To Buy Slave Shackles, Martin Luther King Jr.-Inscribed Book, Blood Tusk

2012-03-01T08:18:35Z

As the midday rush on an exhibition floor at the Swann Auction Galleries in Manhattan cooled earlier this week, curator Wyatt Houston Day floated arou...

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