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One of the sons of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said Saturday evening that the Arizona shootings that claimed six lives and left a congresswoman critically wounded show his father's work must continue."Ugliness rears its head," Martin Luther King III told a dinner gathering hosted by the King Center. "And that tragic incident in a real sense should say to us all that the work of Martin Luther King Jr. is nowhere near finished because he tried to teach us how to live in a nation and world without destroying either person or property.""And so the message of nonviolence resonates strongly, particularly this year after that great tragedy," King said.King III spoke at a King Center tribute to the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, honoring his work on civil rights. A posthumous award was presented to the senator's widow, Vicki Kennedy. The senator died at age 77 in 2009, after battling brain cancer."Edward Kennedy's maiden speech as a young United States senator ...
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Civil rights leaders say King's birthday is opportunity to see how far we've come as a nation
A U.S. man says he has discovered the audio tape of an interview with civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that was never published, in which King calls th...
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Alveda King on her uncle's legacy
Police in Mississippi's state capital were on the lookout for a man who shot another man during a parade honoring the memory of Martin Luther King Jr.Jackson police ...
This Sunday President Obama will celebrate the opening of the new Martin Luther King , Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C. with a speech to be televised nationally. It ...
The dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr . Memorial on the National Mall in Washington has been postponed indefinitely as Hurricane Irene bears down on the East C...
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Niece of civil rights leader on revealing of MLK memorial in Washington, D.C.
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MLK's niece, Dr. Alveda King, weighs in
Martin Luther King Jr. belongs among American icons like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln , national leaders said Monday at the ceremonial groundbreaking for a K...
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