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World Jan 20

News Wrap: At least 3 dead, dozens injured in Baghdad protests

Nation Jan 20

How students experience and cope with racist stereotypes

In interviews with their peers, student journalists found teenagers grappling with a variety of racial misconceptions, ranging from annoying attitudes to deeply hurtful views.

By Eli Kintisch

World Jan 21

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News Wrap: Taliban execute deadly attack on Afghan intelligence base

In our Monday news wrap, Taliban fighters carried out a brazen and deadly attack at a heavily fortified Afghan intelligence base, killing dozens of military personnel. The attackers detonated a stolen military vehicle packed with explosives, allowing more militants to…

Nation Jan 21

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On MLK Day, the need for a ‘deeply moral argument’ about American injustice

On Martin Luther King Day, we return to a segment we first aired last year, about an effort to revive one of Dr. King’s signature programs, what he called the Poor People’s Campaign. Judy Woodruff sat down with Reverend William…

Politics Jan 15

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WATCH: Trump, facing backlash over reported s***hole comments, honors MLK Day

Trump spent Monday's King federal holiday in Florida with no public appearances on his official schedule, but he tweeted the radio and video address to his followers.

By Darlene Superville, Associated Press

Jan 18

Listen to MLK’s 1964 Nobel Prize lecture

By Erik Andersen

For the first time since it was delivered 51 years ago, it is now possible to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in its entirety.

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Jan 19

Elementary school students lend their small voices to King’s big dream

By Jordan Vesey

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., students from Washington, D.C.'s Watkins Elementary gathered Friday to celebrate what has become an annual tradition. Each year the fifth grade students study and reenact the "I have a Dream" speech the late…

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Jan 19

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Elementary school students lend their small voices to King’s big dream

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Jan 19

MTV airs programming in black and white on MLK Day

By Stacy A. Anderson, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — MTV is taking the color out of its programming on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to encourage people to talk about what race means in their lives.

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Jan 16

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In Smaller Voices, ‘I Have a Dream’ Echoes Again Over National Mall

For the past seven years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, children from a Washington, D.C., elementary school have climbed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to proclaim "I have a dream," just as Dr. King did 48 years ago.

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