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MLK Day events participants include Geneva Craig, who lived in Selma and was tear-gassed on Bloody Sunday, and Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, whose mother died when she went South to help. Both will speak in Grants Pass. We also welcome Precious Yamaguchi from the Ashland celebration, Bittin Duggan and Danny Stoddard from Coos Bay, and Reverend Ryan Scott from Grants Pass, for conversations about what's been accomplished... and what remains.
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The Oregon Remembrance Project works to remind the state of its racist past, with an eye toward improvement and reconciliation. Gabi Johnsen and Taylor Stewart are key players in the effort, and in observing the coming birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Grants Pass.
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Preview of 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations.
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Schools and many public offices close on Monday (January 20th) to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The murdered civil rights leader would…
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The observance of Martin Luther King's birthday sends us into the archives in search of MLK-related material. Newspaper reporter Marc Perrusquia joined us…
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Ashland has come a long way in nearly 100 years. The town that was a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1920s now puts on one of the region's larger…
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Ernest Withers is considered one of the great documentary photographers of the civil rights movement.He was a confidant of Martin Luther King, Medgar…
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A special edition of our "Curious" segment is geared to the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday. University of Oregon associate professor…
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2018 is a milestone, and not a happy one, in remembering the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. It was 50 years ago that an assassin's bullet killed the…
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The major Martin Luther King Day celebration in Ashland features a collective keynote speaker: "Universes," the innovative resident theater company at the…
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Expect this year's observance of Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday to provoke a lively discussion of race and equality in America. The months since the…
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Calling all MLK events: Martin Luther King, Jr. will be remembered across the nation on Monday, the day his birthday is observed as a holiday.…