#Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said on Monday that he “won’t rest” until lawmakers pass national voting rights legislation, renewing his push for further reforms on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“Nobody’s about to silence me on this issue of voting rights,” Warnock said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We’re going to get this done.”

In the last Congress, Democrats tried and failed to pass sweeping voting rights legislation that sought to fight back against state laws in a number of GOP states that had curtailed access to the ballot.

After the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the House in September 2021, Democrats in the Senate were unable to get the bill through the chamber because of Republican opposition.

Now Warnock, who is also the senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was pastor until his assassination in 1968, is pressing to get federal voting rights legislation passed, arguing on MSNBC that the issue should be at the top of his party’s agenda.

“Voting rights is not just some other issue alongside other rights,” Warnock said. “It’s the very framework in which we get to fight for all the things we care about.”

Warnock’s offensive on voting rights comes after President Biden during a speech on Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist Church on what would have been the slain civil rights icon’s 94th birthday that the U.S. is at an “inflection point” for the fight for democracy.

But with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives and Democrats holding a slim majority in the Senate, the prospects of passing sweeping voting rights legislation seem slim. Republicans have signaled instead that their legislative priorities include curtailing abortion access and repealing key parts of some of the Biden administration’s most prominent legislative victories over the last two years.

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95 years ago today, a King was born. He was a dreamer…and so much more. He was a defender of those being oppressed and a challenger of oppressors. He was a student of the human condition and a strategist for humane change. He was a teacher, a thinker, a truth teller. King.

My Hero, The Great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You paved the way for all of us. To be Free at last. As you envisioned us to be able to be one with each other and to make a brighter future for our children. When I was little reading a children's book about you. You inspired me by your actions of peace through the words of love and kindness of what we shall be from what we are now. Your Dream Lives On In Me and Billions of others who follow your teachings that have shaped our way of living and our way of life itself. I am honored to make a artwork of you as I hope you know that you made me dream too and 1 day, I hope that we shall be free at last.

For I Too Have A Dream.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty. Free at last.

HAPPY 95TH BIRTHDAY 🎂  😇TO YOU IN HEAVEN ABOVE

THE MAN, THE TEACHER, THE LEADER, THE LEGEND, THE HERO

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 🤴🏿👑

For 1 Day, We Shall........ Overcome

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#MartinLutherKingJr #MartinLutherKingJrday #MLKDay #KeepTheDreamAlive #RememberTheKing #IHaveADream #WeShallOvercome #FreeAtLast

#MLK #MLKDay #MLK95 #ShiftTheCulture

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Happy Birthday to Sade, FKA Twigs, and Aaliyah, and also happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

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Martin Luther King Jr: Lightness of love

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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UW-Stevens Point to mark MLK Day with free, public event

The event will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at the university in Stevens Point.

STEVENS POINT – Commemorating his work for racial equality and social justice, Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be celebrated at a free, public event at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point this month. The second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative event, Hope, Unity and Peace, will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Jan. 23 in the Dreyfus University Center Laird Room, 1015 Reserve St.,…

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Memories On Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

I’m in the Soho Lounge at JFK waiting to board a Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo Haneda (HND). Using 45,000 JAL miles I upgraded myself to first class for the 14.5 hour flight and look forward to the omotenashi experience. That flight leaves in a couple of hours. But today is Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. I must pay homage to one of American’s finest. He championed…

[professorambrius]

Remembering Dr. King, 2024

Today, we remember the great man, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day from BrainPOP Jr.!

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#MLK

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: We will reach the goal of freedom because that is America's goal

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and like we do every year in honor of Dr. King’s memory, I’m posting an excerpt from his Letter From Birmingham Jail. This year’s selection is a set of passages from the closing paragraphs of the letter. Here, Dr. King is giving thanks for those who have nobly and courageously taken a stand for justice and nondiscrimination — those who have broken loose from…

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1/16/2023 is National Religious Freedom Day 🌏, Blue Monday 💙🌏, National Fig Newton Day 🇺🇲, National Nothing Day 🇺🇲, Martin Luther King Jr. Day 🇺🇲

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Inspirational    Post  From David Joel Miller. Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep…

[openaccessbpo]

January 16 marks the birth anniversary of the civil rights activist with a dream of having a society where everyone is accepted regardless of their skin color.

Open Access BPO joins the American community in celebrating the legacy that Martin Luther King Jr. has left us.

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Natural Grocers® Honors Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2023 with In-store Fundraiser to Jack and Jill of America, Inc.

Natural Grocers® Honors Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2023 with In-store Fundraiser to Jack and Jill of America, Inc.

The Company will donate 1% of all purchases on January 16, 2023, to the College Graduation Assistance Program Fund LAKEWOOD, Colo. /PRNewswire/ — Natural Grocers®, the leading family-operated organic and natural grocery retailer in the U.S., is pleased to announce its upcoming in-store fundraising campaign in support of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. (JJOA) on January 16, 2023.  The company is…

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Martin Luther King Jr: Cruel Jest

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” —Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968).