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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Americans are encouraged to volunteer and help serve their communities — and North Texans are no exception. Here's a round up of events happening Monday around the area.
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Annette Gordon-Reed is one of the foremost scholars on race and American history working today — and Monday she’ll be the keynote speaker for the Dallas Institute’s 16th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium.
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Sam Pollard's documentary deftly examines the FBI's intense surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. in the final years of his life.
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We talked to six marchers about what they remember from the 1963 March on Washington and how they feel about the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing.
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Crowds of people gathered Monday morning in Dallas near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to prepare for the city's annual MLK Day parade. Some folks…
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North Texas is commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a variety of events — from a youth summit and a volunteer project, to a musical…
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Students in the Dallas school district recently competed in the annual Foley Gardere Oratory Competition that honors Martin Luther King Jr. This year’s…
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Minnie's Food Pantry in Plano is usually closed on Monday. But in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, pantry founder Cheryl Jackson opened her doors…
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Without money from the Delta Air Lines Foundation, Atlanta's Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park would have been closed for the King holiday, a National Park Service spokesman told NPR.
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In 1963, more than a dozen girls were jailed for about two months in an old, squalid stockade in Georgia for protesting segregation. At StoryCorps, some of them talk about the experience.
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A bomb threat, a march turned violent and a militant black power group all weighed heavily on the civil rights leader during his last speech in 1968, says Redemption author Joseph Rosenbloom.
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On Martin Luther King's birthday, with a winter storm looming, volunteers at a mosque in Richardson spent a day of service assembling and handing out…