... about the civil rights movement and the work of Martin Luther King Jr. They will also study slavery and the Civil War. Edwards ... unit is to begin in January in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Edwards has invited Dr. Pat ...

... his campaign theme of "Yes we can," a line he used himself. Evoking the memory of American civil rights giant Martin Luther King Jr., Obama noted that King was in Ghana in 1957 to hail Ghana's independence from the British. He quoted King ...

... Saturday challenged Iran's government to halt a "violent and unjust" crackdown on dissenters, and he quoted Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." "Right now, we are bearing ...

... News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis. It was Cronkite who read the bulletins ...

... experience. "People see this as a historical event," Jenkins said. "Many of them aren't old enough to remember Martin Luther King Jr., you know, they never saw him." In the weeks since Obama's victory, Washington's NAACP bureau has been ...

... rights movement. As a young pastor in 1950s Alabama, he helped lead the Montgomery bus boycotts. With the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, Lowery created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which anchored the national civil ...

... throwing's not exactly a form of nonviolent resistance -- and Zaidi's not up there with Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But if Zaidi inspires a new global trend of shoe throwing, I'll take that over bomb throwing any day. Brooks ...

... voted Wednesday to recess Thursday and return to the Capitol the following Wednesday, taking Monday off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and Tuesday off for Barack Obama's inauguration. The House is also expected to take Monday and Tuesday ...

... enormous challenges that lay ahead and promised to act with "fierce urgency," a phrase often used by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Riding a vintage railcar on his whistle-stop trip to Washington, Obama carried with him the hopes of a nation ...

NEW YORK When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the focus of his acceptance speech wasn't on what had been accomplished, but his ...