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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, we play excerpts from one of his acclaimed speeches.
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One of the state’s leading civil rights voices died over the weekend, just days before the holiday he helped enshrine.Reverend Arthur Hilson, a retired…
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With M.L.K. Day approaching, we look at a forthcoming book that traces the response to King's assassination -- both here and around the world. At the time…
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Think Civil Rights era, and you think the south...home to Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, and peaceful marchers set upon by police dogs. Selma, Birmingham,…
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We talked with African Americans living in northern New England about the civil rights protest that helped change the course of racial history in the US.…
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On a Monday morning the weather more closely resembled Martin Luther King Jr’s hometown of Atlanta, than it did downtown Concord. But the heat and…
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Fifty years ago this month President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed a nearly $950-million anti-poverty bill into law, creating Head Start, Medicare,…
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Should The 'I Have A Dream' Speech Be Public Domain?Martin Luther King Junior’s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is not in the public domain. The King Estate holds strict copyrights on the famous 1963 speech,…
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The Songs That Shaped 'I Have A Dream'On August 28th, 1963, minutes before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his landmark 'I Have a Dream' speech, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson electrified and…
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Community members gathered at events in Portsmouth, Hollis, and across the state today/Monday to celebrate the life – and the mission -- of Martin Luther…