MLK Legacy 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
4-3-18 (accessed)
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Fifty Years After His Death
by Jelani Cobb
This anniversary of his assassination falls amid the largest anti-gun-violence mobilization that we have seen since he departed.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
The Whitewashing — and Resurrection — of Dr. King’s Legacy
by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
In so many ways, King’s life has been reduced to the lead character in a fable the nation tells itself about “the movement,” which begins with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and culminates with the 1963 March on Washington or in Selma in 1965.
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