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In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. released his third book “Why We Can’t Wait,” which captures how activism by African Americans from the spring and summer of that year accelerated social change. “Why We Can’t Wait” was written at the conclusion of key national events that exposed deep racial injustice and vast economic inequality to help wake many Americans from slumber. “Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement,” he wrote. “They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes, and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well...

Speaking at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly in 1968, Dr. King said: The response of some of the so-called young militants does not represent the position of the vast majority of Negroes. There are some who are color-consumed, and they see a kind of mystique in blackness or in being colored, and anything non-colored is condemned. We do not follow that course ... Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all of our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel, and never mind saying it, as one of the...

On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King III was sitting at home in Atlanta with his siblings, watching the news, when a news bulletin flashed across their TV screen: Their father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., had just been assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. It was this memory King shared as he and his wife issued an urgent call to action to protect democracy on the 56th anniversary of his father’s murder. “At that moment, obviously, our hearts started beating very fast and our lives would change forever,” King said Thursday. He and his wife,...

If Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, he would be saying this about Democrats and supporting Trump.

'We are f***ed,' an exasperated police officer candidly declares as he patrols a Chevron gas station in Oakland, California, during the morning rush. But the officer, who's picked up an overtime shift to keep watch and act as a deterrent, wasn't just referring to the theft epidemic when he made the strikingly blunt assessment. 'I can go behind the cars and try and turn on my lights, but why would they stop?' Suspects are aware of these policies and it means if they flee at speed, police often won't even follow. This cop is simply there to try and prevent...

Bike riders again defied law enforcement warnings Monday and participated in the annual Wheels Up, Guns Down ride Monday. It’s taken place annually during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend and on MLK Day.

This might be the single best MLKJ Day post I've ever seen in my life. Wait for it... FBI @FBI · Follow This #MLKDay, the #FBI honors one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights movement and reaffirms its commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of fairness and equal justice for all. Readers added context The FBI engaged in surveillance of King, attempted to discredit him, and used manipulation tactics to influence him to stop organizing. King’s family believe the FBI was responsible for his death. cbsnews.com/news/mlks-fami… npr.org/2021/01/18/956… npr.org/2021/01/18/956… Context is written by people who use X, and appears...

President Biden on Monday joined volunteers at a food bank in Philadelphia in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third consecutive year he has marked the holiday at the organization. Biden volunteered at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization in South Philadelphia. Biden chatted with volunteers and stuffed boxes of food. “Where do you want me? the president said as he picked up a bag of apples and donned a Philabundance hat.

One of the most common tendencies of human nature is that of placing responsibility on some external agency for sins we have commited or mistakes we have made. We are forever attempting to find some scapegoat on which we cast responsibility for our actions. ... And so modern man was convinced that psychology had given him explanations which relieved him of any responsibility for his actions. ... We are all familiar with the most common agencies on which we project responsibility for our actions. First we turn to environment. How easy it is for one to affirm that one's whole...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has defended his family's role in the secret government surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy's comments came on the eve of the MLK Jr holiday, on a campaign stop in Atlanta. He defended his father Robert F Kennedy and JFK for permitting the eavesdropping - calling it a necessary step amid the political tensions of the era. The FBI began wiretapping King's home in Atlanta on November 8, 1963 - with then-AG Robert Kennedy's written approval. It remained in place until April of 1965, while another in his office stayed until June of 1966. Some...

On Thursday, a woman emptied what looked to be a large red can of gasoline all over the front porch of the house where Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. She was seemingly intent on burning the historic home down. But two visitors from Utah who had come to see the historic site were watching the woman — and they acted quickly to save it, standing in her way when she tried to bring a lighter onto the porch. When the woman tried to leave the scene, two other visitors stopped her and held her until police arrived....

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called for replacing Juneteenth with Election Day as a national holiday, deriding the celebration of the end of slavery in the US as “useless.” “Single day voting, on Election Day,” the 37-year-old entrepreneur and longshot 2024 White House contender proposed in a speech before Iowa voters on Saturday. “We will make Election Day a holiday in the United States of America, so there’s no complaints about it.” < However, Ramaswamy told the crowd that in order to make room for another federal holiday, one of the current 11 would need to be removed from...

Buffalo police want to know more about recent acts of vandalism at the Martin Luther King Jr. Park casino building. Police shared a video of people causing damage to the building’s exterior before all involved eventually entered it, they say. They say this happened on Wednesday, July 12 around 8 p.m. Police believe others have also been involved in “recent acts of vandalism at the park.” Anyone with information that could help police in their investigation into this can call or text the department’s confidential tip line at 716-847-2255.

Wishing away the ghost of a slain predecessor, our president is trying to bury a living law. ********************************************************* Hypocrisy is never a good look. On June 30, our secretary of Education declared that the Supreme Court, by striking down President Biden’s student-debt forgiveness program, had “substituted itself for Congress.” On the very same day, Biden issued his “Memorandum on Certifications Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” decreeing that, from now on, executive-branch agencies would adopt the CIA’s “Transparency Plan” for releasing assassination related files they control. The problem: The federal...

Roger Stone was on Jack Posobiec’s show with stories about the JFK assassination. He discussed his theory that Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot Kennedy and that the Mafia was involved. One thing that did strike a chord is when he said that then-President Trump saw the classified files and told him, “I can’t tell you it’s so horrible. You wouldn’t believe it.” Jack Posobiec interviewed Roger Stone about the JFK assassination. Roger Stone wrote an entire book about the investigation. JACK POSOBIEC: Joe Biden “has extended the classification of files regarding the JFK assassination, but what many people may...

Californnia high school senior Megan Simpkins slammed her school in a passionate speech for allowing a biologically male student to use the women’s locker room, alluding to a physical altercation. Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, made headlines after a viral video showed a transgender student assaulting a female student on campus. Parents reportedly told Fox 11 the transgender student has a history of "erratic and uncomfortable behavior" and had access to the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. Riverside Police also claimed this was not the first time the transgender student has been involved in an altercation. Many...

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, on the 4th April 1968, lead to many very violent criminal reactions on April 5th and the following few days. In the King assassination riots, there were 43 deaths, over 3,000 injuries and over 20,000 people arrested. President Lindon Johnson said of that extreme reaction: “What did you expect? ....... When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.” King had said “……. in spite of temporary...

Eternal Law does not change. But sometimes how we have to interpret it does change. How do we bring the atrocities of the PC Left under control? Faith helps us survive. God Is Good. We do the best we can. Most of us.

Martin Luther King and Planned ParenthoodBy the time Martin Luther King Jr. had taken his seat in 1960 on Planned Parenthood’s committee on the study of contraception, his views on how artificial birth control could be used to reduce Black family size were well-known throughout the United States. King had been recommended to join the committee by the accomplished and influential Morehouse University sociology professor Walter R. Chivers, who had twice written to his former student (October & November), asking him to become a member. For his part, Chivers had volunteered with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for sixteen...

Eight people were shot during a family-friendly MLK day event in Florida on Monday evening, leaving one person critically injured. Gunfire broke out soon after 5pm triggering a chaotic frenzy that allowed the shooter to escape. They remained on the loose on Monday night and it is not yet known if more than one person fired.