Text of Stevie Wonder's speech advocating a national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, January 15, 1981

BUILDING THE DREAM - Text of the speech delivered on Jan 15, 1981 at a rally/march in Washington, DC where Stevie Wonder officially launched the campaign to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday...

Miami strip club flyer features Dr. King

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MIAMI - A flyer promoting a Miami strip club's 'I Have a Dream Bash' featuring MLK holding wads of cash next to scantily-clad women has its creator taking plenty of flack...

Dr. King's 'dream' included justice for black Americans

Alvin Tillery

OPINION - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech is one of the most important pieces of oratory in American history. Every year, countless thousands of school children commit the speech to memory...

Transcripts: President Obama's MLK Day remarks

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TRANSCRIPT -- President Barack Obama's remarks at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Washington D.C., January 16, 2012...

Obamas mark MLK Day with public service

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the life of the late civil rights leader with a volunteer project...

MLK, the 2012 campaign and the American dream

Lee A. Saunders

OPINION - Dr. King was a longtime champion of the labor movement, and he died in 1968 while marching with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., all members of AFSCME Local 1733...

How black music made MLK Day possible

Don Mizell

OPINION - Stevie Wonder is without question the single most important figure in the realization of an MLK National Holiday, because his inner vision, passion and perseverance...

Fla. LG: 'welfare drug test' governor 'epitomizes MLK'

Joy-Ann Reid

OPINION - When Florida Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll gives a compliment, expect the unexpected. In this case, the black second in command of the sunshine state says Gov. Rick Scott 'epitomizes Martin Luther King Jr.' Seriously...