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From Bull Connor to Barack Obama
Bill Hudson/AP
Fifty years ago this week, thousands of students left their classrooms and marched on downtown...
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Obama Was Never Timid
Michael Reynolds/EPA, via Landov
His fight for gun control took some of the greatest presidential guts in U.S....
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We Can Do Well
Jon Favreau on what we can learn from Bobby Kennedy in the wake of the Boston tragedy. MORE
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Digitized Tape of MLK’s Shooter Released
On 45th anniversary of the civil-rights leader’s death. MORE
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MLK Supported Israel
Gil Troy on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s support for Israel. MORE
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MLK’s BFF
Martin Luther King and Richard Nixon had one of the most unlikely political friendships, but it came apart over an arrest. By Jeffrey Frank. MORE
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The Cop Who Saved Martin Luther King
As Inauguration Day coincides with Martin Luther King Day, Michael Daly on America’s progress on racism and regression on gun violence. MORE
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Remaking Martin Luther King As Anti-Zionist
Gil Troy says King was pro-Israel and pro-Zionist, despite what some would like to believe. MORE
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Guns, Slavery, and the Holocaust
Michael Tomasky on the nonsensical argument that gun rights help protect minorities from oppression. MORE
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Lessons From the March
Hedrick Smith, who covered the protest in 1963, on what we can learn from the anniversary of the March on Washington. MORE
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Of Obama and Bagels
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Prisoners in Parallel
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