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updated: Fri Jul 18, 2008 08:53 pm

Martin Luther King, Jr. News

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11 hrs ago | KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4

16 Hospital Employees With Criminal Pasts Suspended

Sixteen employees at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital 's outpatient clinic have been suspended after it was discovered they had serious crimes in their past, including at least one rape, or had lied about ...

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Related Topix: Luther College, King College, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho

Thu Jul 17, 2008

WCPO-TV9 Cincinnati

Airport May Be Named After Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth in WCPO interview A civil rights leader with local ties will be honored in Alabama.

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Related Topix: Cincinnati, OH

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Birmingham votes to rename airport for King aide - AP

Directors voted Wednesday to rename the airport in this once-strictly segregated city for a civil rights leader who staged demonstrations alongside the Rev.

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Related Topix: Birmingham (University of Alabama System), Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Metro

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Chico Enterprise-Record

Report: LA hospital workers had criminal records

Some employees of troubled Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital had criminal records they never reported and were not properly disciplined when Los Angeles County managers discovered their histories months ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

In King's Atlanta, Pieces of a Legacy

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Fresh grass, polished stone and cheery park rangers greet more than half a million tourists annually who visit a small neighborhood here to view the grave of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Related Topix: Luther College, Atlanta, GA

Mon Jul 14, 2008

TriCities.com

King Boulevard Anniversary Celebration Scheduled

A two-day celebration of the first anniversary of the renaming of Twin City streets for slain civil rights leader Dr.

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Related Topix: Twin City, GA

Sun Jul 13, 2008

The Clarion-Ledger

King family suit sends the dream off course

A dream gone awry is all I could think when reading news that the children of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr.

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Related Topix: African-American, Atlanta, GA

Sat Jul 12, 2008

Athens Banner-Herald

King Papers progress stalls

The deal to bring the $32 million Martin Luther King Jr. Collection back to the national icon's hometown was put together in 11 days - a feat that set an ambitious bar.

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Fri Jul 11, 2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

MLK's kids sue brother, father's estate

The children of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King appear to be tangled in a legal squabble - against each other.

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Related Topix: African-American

Free Republic

CNN Re-airs Two Year Old Glowing Look at Jackson, No Mention of ‘Hymietown’

Thursday's "Newsroom" program on CNN, in a report promoted to be about how "controversial comments are nothing new to Jesse Jackson," was actually a retrospective from two years ago that largely glowed about ...

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Thu Jul 10, 2008

Journal Star

Cosby coming to Peoria for King luncheon

Bill Cosby, whose career has spanned comedy, acting and in recent years social commentary, was formally announced today as featured speaker at the 17th annual Dr.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Bill Cosby, Peoria, IL

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Obama evokes Martin Luther King Jr. as he seeks 'mandate for change' in Georgia

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Monday he doesn't just want to win the White House -- he wants a mandate.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, Illinois Government, John McCain, US Senate, Democrat

Tue Jul 08, 2008

California Greening

This 'Green Brotha' Going to Chicago

The Los Angeles Times published a timely editorial this week on the disgraceful handling of the mess at Martin Luther King/Harbor Hospital in Watts.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA

The Carpetbagger Report

Dr. King was not a Republican

Two years ago, in the midst of a competitive Senate race in Maryland, the National Black Republican Association went to work in support of Lt.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, African-American

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Los Angeles Times

Learning from a death in Brooklyn

On June 19, surveillance cameras in a Brooklyn, N.Y., mental ward captured shocking images of a woman collapsing on the floor and lying there, untended by hospital workers, for an hour.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Brooklyn, NY, Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY, Kings County, NY, Opinion

Sun Jul 06, 2008

The Review

Community keeps Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory alive through annual parade, picnic

In Alliance, marchers paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., including these percussionists in the Triple TRC Drum Squad.

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Related Topix: Camden, OH, Alliance, OH, Canton Metro

Sat Jul 05, 2008

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Tape Shows King-Harbor Staff Ignoring Dying Patient

It made news around the world, hard evidence of an American public hospital's indifference to a dying patient.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Montgomery Advertiser

Black Republican group uses MLK to promote itself

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A black Republican group has put up billboards in Florida and South Carolina saying the Rev.

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Related Topix: Tallahassee Metro, Tallahassee, FL

The Review

City hires engineer for rehabilitation of M.L. King Jr. Viaduct

It seems that the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Viaduct project has an engineer. The Alliance Board of Control, consisting of Mayor Toni Middleton and Safety-Service Director John Blaser, unanimously approved a ...

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Related Topix: Alliance, OH

Thu Jul 03, 2008

The Detroit News

Rosa Parks memorabilia to be auctioned

The hat she wore Dec. 1, 1955, when she touched off the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott.

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Related Topix: Wayne County, MI, Dearborn, MI

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