On this precise moment, one minute after seven in the evening and fifty years ago, MLK was shot and killed. An authentic way to honor MLK is to work toward a more peaceful world to eradicate poverty and racism.
On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, America faces a fundamental task https://bloom.bg/2H9oli5
Police brutality, with community support, or at best indifference, is a daily experience for Negroes in all too many areas of the South. They live in a police state which, paradoxically, maintains itself within a democratic republic." — MLK, 1964 http://bit.ly/2GzYRNW
"As they said, he will never die as long as we mention his name." Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down at his Memphis hotel. @JBsportscaster has more on how the nation is paying tribute to MLK's legacy. https://cbsn.ws/2IwX9JM
That dream that I had that day has in many points turned into a nightmare."
In this 1967 interview with @NBCNews, MLK reflected on the realities in the country in the years after his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
The full interview -> http://nbcnews.to/2GRn0yN #MLK50
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy https://www.apnews.com/afs:Content:1862710221
On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, read excerpts from David Margolick’s ‘The Promise and the Dream’ in @ReutersOpinion: MLK and RFK https://reut.rs/2EhAFtC
MLK’s civil rights struggle https://reut.rs/2EjKHdJ RFK after MLK https://reut.rs/2JgJWpk