Martin Luther King, Jr. News

Whenever people talk about black community leadership, the black church inevitably comes up.

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The role of public hospitals in America has been remarkably consistent over the decades, in spite of health care policy debates, insurance trends and shifting medical advice.

Ken Anderson commands the respect of his singers, whether they are the volunteers in the Martin Luther King Jr.

Those of us of a certain age remember where they were when Pearl Harbor was attacked or when they heard the news that World War II was over.

Toward Community: Unity in Diversity invites youth in grades 2 to 12 to enter the 2010 Dr.

Many in the Middle East are too young to remember what happened in 1989. Most would know something of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the protests in Tiananmen Square.

The community can look to its youth for direction on overcoming intolerance of differences and creating positive change, say organizers of the 2010 Dr.

In theory, I escaped a weekend in Atlanta without becoming road kill. In reality, the place squashes a part of my psyche.

Entry forms available at area schools. The Peace and Freedom Organization of Marion is looking for poetry, speech, art and essay entries for the 2009 contest.

Organizers of an event in front of the state Capitol are hoping to make a statement.

The organizers of a Martin Luther King, Jr. community celebration are inviting area schoolchildren to be part of a poster and creative writing contest.

Georgia land conservation projects will receive $5.5 million from a massive federal funding bill.

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Sunday, November 15 at 4:30 p.m., tickets $35, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.

What happen to the African American Male? This topic is often discussed but never act upon, why I dona t know.

In 1842, escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a fiery speech in Ithaca's DeWitt Park, after he was refused other indoor venues.

Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Waterloo's West High School, its renovated auditorium will be rededicated with a memorial to the slain civil rights leader.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. said, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." One day before he was shot and killed, King said in his "Mountaintop" speech: "We've got some difficult days ahead, ... Like anybody, I would like ...

Despite facing a funding shortfall, organizers will continue with plans for Mesa's annual parade that honors slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." - Bible "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.