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How Stevie Wonder, John Conyers and the UAW made MLK Day a holiday | Opinion
Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...
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How Stevie Wonder, John Conyers and the UAW made MLK Day a holiday | Opinion
John Conyers, D-Detroit ... United Autoworkers union members at a General Motors plant in North Tarrytown, New York, refused to come to work on King’s birthday. King had a long partnership ...
The inside story of the pardon of Marcus Garvey
The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...
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What’s open, closed on MLK Day and Inauguration Day
New York (CNN) — Monday, January 20 ... Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for a federal holiday to honor the civil rights ...
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What’s open, closed on MLK Day and Inauguration Day
NEW YORK — Monday ... Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced legislation for a federal holiday to honor the civil rights leader.
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39th MLK Day sees public service events, celebrations across U.S.
20 (UPI) --The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy the same day a new president was ... to establish it after Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., had initially proposed ...
A look at the long struggle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Family and others carrying on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of equality, justice and nonviolent protest want Americans to remember that Monday's holiday is really about helping others.
On Biden’s posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey, the “patron saint” of black separatism
The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...