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  United States: Why Was Martin Luther King Assassinated? – Recalling the Response

  2 May 2018, by SHEPPARD Barry

  This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.
  This murder of one of the great Black leaders of the time by white racists with the complicity of the U.S. government, most likely the FBI, stunned all African Americans in the country. (...)

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  United States: Martin Luther King and The New Poor People’s Campaign

  27 February 2018, by MIAH Malik

  IN 1967, MARTIN Luther King, Jr. told a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) staff retreat:
  “I think it is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights… [W]hen we see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic and (...)

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  When Bollywood Reached Out to Support Martin Luther King

  24 February 2018, by AROON Pretti

  In 1965, the president of an organisation that screened Hindi films in the US wrote to Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, donating all proceeds from the premier of a movie to the movement.
  In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy received a letter from Films of India, a Los (...)

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  USA: Dr. Martin Luther King’s Long Assassination

  19 January 2018, by STREET Paul

  As the 50^th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s violent death (on April 4, 1968) grows closer, you can expect to hear more and more in U.S. corporate media about the real and alleged details of his immediate physical assassination (or perhaps execution). You will not be told about King’s (...)

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  United States: When Martin Luther King broke the silence on Vietnam

  4 April 2017, by JONES Brian

  Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King gave a speech that rocked U.S. society—by connecting the struggle for civil rights with the need to oppose militarism and capitalism. Brian Jones tells the story .
  Martin Luther King delivers his “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside Church in (...)

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  Civil Rights Struggles in the US – The Evolution of Dr. King

  18 January 2016, by SUSTAR Lee

  By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist.
  Virtually every Democratic Party politician, black or white, claims the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
  Conveniently forgotten is the fact that in the final years of his life, before his assassination in 1968, King broke (...)

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  USA, fifty years later: The Misremembering of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’

  14 August 2013, by YOUNGE Gary

  Fifty years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s most famous speech, like his own political legacy, is widely misunderstood. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the podium on August 28, 1963, the Department of Justice was watching. Fearing that someone might hijack the microphone to make (...)

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  United States, 1968: Martin Luther King’s “Taking us to the mountaintop”

  4 April 2013, by CHRETIEN Todd

  Todd Chretien pays tribute to Martin Luther King and his visionary final speech.
  King speaks in support of the Memphis sanitation workers to an overflow crowd at the Mason Temple Church
  SOME YEARS ago, thanks to a feature on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! show, I started listening each year to (...)

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  Martin Luther King Jr: The unfinished struggle

  4 April 2008, by JONES Brian

  Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis 40 years ago in the midst of a struggle that he saw as part of the next stage for the civil rights movement—supporting a strike of African American sanitation workers. Here, Brian Jones reviews an excellent new book, Michael Honey’s Going Down (...)