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Hollywood stars pressure action on gun violence
Hollywood celebrities and children of slain Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy joined shooting victims Wednesday in demanding tougher action from US lawmakers on reducing gun violence. Comedian Chris Rock, aging Grammy-winner Tony Bennett and actress Amanda Peet brought their starpower to Congress to press for legislation that…
Georgia police investigating KKK recruitment flyers left before MLK Day
The Newton County Sheriff’s Department in Georgia is investigating flyers that North Carolina’s Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) say were distributed in as many as nine states on the East Coast to “counteract Martin Luther King’s birthday.” “They need to get a life, really,” Georgia resident…
Virginia Attorney General cites Martin Luther King in fight against contraception mandate
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Monday said opponents of Department of Health and Human Services regulations should practice civil disobedience like Martin Luther King Jr. Cuccinelli said earlier this month that Catholic bishops and others opposed to the so-called contraception mandate should protest the regulation by getting themselves arrested.…
New Orleans Police: 5 shot along Martin Luther King parade route
At least five people were shot along the route for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route, the New Orleans Police Department said on Monday. WVUE reported that the incident happened at around 1:15 p.m. ET, just 30 minutes after the march passed the location of the shooting at…
Activists use MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech to pick copyright fight
Hoping to highlight what they see as problems with America’s copyright system, a group of activists called Fight for the Future published a copy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech to Vimeo over the weekend with the express intent of picking a fight, urging people…
‘Gun Appreciation Day’ chairman: Slavery wouldn’t have happened if slaves were armed
The chairman of Gun Appreciation Day may be taking “Django Unchained” a little too seriously. Larry Ward on Friday told CNN that he created the first annual Gun Appreciation Day just days before President Barack Obama’s inauguration and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to “honor the legacy of Dr.…
Museum to open balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot
The motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee where US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 is being opened to the public, a spokeswoman said Friday. It is the first time that visitors to the erstwhile Lorraine Motel, now the National Civil Rights Museum, will…
Van Jones: Libertarianism ‘would spit in the face of Dr. King’
Former White House adviser Van Jones on Monday defended recent remarks he made against “so-called libertarians” by saying, “I think we have to start punching back.” In a March speech to the Occupy movement in Los Angeles, Jones had called libertarianism a “despicable ideology.” “They say they’re Patriots but they…
Martin Luther King’s niece calls Trayvon Martin’s death ‘a late abortion’
Anti-abortion activist Alveda King told a Fox News audience on Thursday that the death of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin could be considered “a late abortion.” King was reacting to a clip of Reverend Al Sharpton, who recently called at a rally for the arrest of alleged shooter George Zimmerman. “I’m…
Texas girl’s plea for justice rides balloon all the way to Florida
When El Paso first-grader Marcella Ornelas wrote her “dream” for a more secure future for all on a notepad and taped the message to a single blue balloon, she couldn’t have guessed it would be recovered by two little girls all the way in Florida. The note was part of…
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