US-POLITICS-OBAMA-MLK President Barack Obama sits alongside children as he participates in a literacy project at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Washington, DC, Jan. 19, 2015.
It was the synagogue's eighth annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, held each January during a Friday evening Shabbat service. Evers-Williams has been a civil rights leader for decades. After her first husband, Medgar Evers, was murdered, she
4439967. President Obama honored the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with a Monday tweet that included a special someone standing next to the MLK statue in Washington, D.C. — himself.
Arkansas is one of just three states to jointly celebrate King, the black civil-rights leader, and Lee, the white Confederate general, on the third Monday of January. Some have labeled the practice incongruous, and most public celebrations center on
Chants of “Black lives matter” and “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” echoed through the narrow streets of downtown Boston Monday, as protesters and activists marched from the Old State House to the African Meeting House.