by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), introduced legislation to make his birthday a federal holiday. It took fifteen years, hundreds of protests, a song, and a tour to make Dr. King’s birthday a holiday, and … Continued
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