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King's Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop
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Nikki Giovanni: 'Martin Had Faith in the People'
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The Magazine and Martin Luther King
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The Last March of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’
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‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’
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How Martin Luther King Jr. Recruited John Lewis
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The Debt MLK Owed to India's Anti-Colonial Fight
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The Riots That Followed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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King's Message of Nonviolence Has Been Distorted
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The Geography of Oppression
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Where Have All the Rioters Gone?
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Rewriting My Grandfather’s MLK Story
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How the Civil-Rights Movement Aimed to End Poverty
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Jesse Williams and John Legend Talk Race in America
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Is King All That We Are Allowed to Become?
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The Covers Behind KING
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call For a Poor People’s Campaign
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Protest Against a Racist Court System
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When the Revolution Was Televised
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Revisiting One of King's Final and Most Haunting Sermons
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The Crisis in America’s Cities
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The Unfulfilled Promise of Fair Housing
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America’s Moral Malady
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Read Martin Luther King Jr. on White America’s Delusions
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Radio Atlantic: King Remembered
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The Civil-Rights Movement’s Generation Gap
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‘Let My People Vote’
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Our Back Pages: The Atlantic and Civil Rights
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Coretta Scott King and the Civil-Rights Movement’s Hidden Women
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Martin Luther King Jr. on the Vietnam War
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How Much Had Schools Really Been Desegregated by 1964?
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King Wanted More Than Just Desegregation
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Martin Luther King Jr. Was Bailed Out by a Millionaire
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The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination
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Martin Luther King Jr. Saw Three Evils in the World
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Martin Luther King Jr. Changed a Nation in Only 13 Years
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The Young Man Who Became a Civil-Rights Icon
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How Kara Walker Recasts Racism’s Bitter Legacy
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Racism Is ‘Built into the Very Bones’ of Mississippi
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Daughter Embraces His Hope for the Future
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Martin Luther King Jr. Mourns Trayvon Martin
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The Chasm Between Racial Optimism and Reality
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