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National Social Justice Activists to Host MLK Teach-In | Dallas Weekly

Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes, III, social justice advocate and senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dr. George Mason, senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, and Mayor London Breed, the first African American woman to become mayor of San Francisco, are joining together to host a national “Teach-In” in celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. […]

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