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Sen.-elect the Rev. Raphael Warnock, shown campaigning earlier this month, called for equity and inclusivity in a sermon ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, delivered from the late civil rights icon's church.

Warnock Calls For Equity And Integrity In Sermon At Ebenezer Baptist Ahead Of MLK Day

Jan 17, 2021
Georgia Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock took to the pulpit at Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual home for a sermon honoring the civil rights icon and calling for his work to continue.
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President Trump spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Previous presidents have marked the holiday doing volunteer work.

Trump Advocates For Public Service On MLK Day, But Spends It At Mar-A-Lago Resort

Jan 15, 2018
Past presidents have honored the civil rights leader's birthday by helping out at libraries or homeless shelters but Preisdent Trump chose to spend the day at his Florida resort.
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The Salt
A bus driver is all alone as his empty bus moves through downtown Montgomery, Ala., in April 1956 during the boycott. Georgia Gilmore's cooking helped fund an alternative system of transportation that arose for the city's African-Americans during the boy

Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement

Jan 15, 2018
Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.
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On of the notices posted marking the dual holiday honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as posted at a Senate Education Committee hearing in Little Rock, Ark. Gov. Asa Hutchinson plans to sign into

Arkansas To Split Its Holidays For Martin Luther King Jr. And Robert E. Lee

Mar 20, 2017
Since 1985, the state has celebrated the civil rights icon and Confederate general on the same day. A bill set to be signed into law removes Lee from King's federal holiday, bumping him to October.
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