48 yrs ago today, my friend, my brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, TN. The light of his life still shines.
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John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) April 04, 201648 years ago today Martin Luther King assassinated. His struggle for civil rights, nonviolence & justice lives on https://t.co/fCTxgIfnhu
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 04, 2016****
Maya Angelou: April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014. (Today would've been her 88th birthday.)💕 https://t.co/7H877ppRAT
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Trudy (@thetrudz) April 04, 2016Birthday of writer and poet Maya Angelou (1928) #todayinblackhistory https://t.co/AdRmF6nTFI
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(@SchomburgCenter) April 04, 2016****
LBJ’s letter to Coretta Scott King after her husband’s assassination, which occurred today 1968: https://t.co/SbDDeXFF06
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Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 04, 2016Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed 48 years ago today. A look back at his speech about racial progress from 1965: ajplus.co/jwdf
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AJ+ (@ajplus) April 04, 2016****
"He was like a father, man. To all of us." - BG. Happy Birthday to the late great #MuddyWaters (📷 by Watt Casey) https://t.co/BhT4aVD8Ve
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Buddy Guy (@TheRealBuddyGuy) April 04, 2016Joe Medicine Crow, the last surviving Plains Indian war chief, has died at age 102. nbcnews.to/1pYIRHS https://t.co/mxQ9WFHmQU
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Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) April 04, 2016****
Racism at the root of a government policy
Watergate co-conspirator & Nixon aide John Ehrlichman on why they started the "war on drugs"
harpers.org/archive/2016/0… https://t.co/Vckwbzn8Xq
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Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 22, 2016****
Today is the 2-year anniversary of 276 schoolgirls being kidnapped by Boko Haram. 219 still haven't been found. washingtonpost.com/world/africa/t…
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Megan Hess (@mhess4) April 04, 2016BREAKING: SCOTUS unanimously rejects Texas GOP attempt to limit voting power of Hispanics & other minority groups nbcnews.to/1UPSbvq
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(@MSNBC) April 04, 2016****
LBJ’s letter to Coretta Scott King after her husband’s assassination, which occurred today 1968: https://t.co/SbDDeXFF06
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Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 04, 2016My Heartfelt Tribute to President Obama (@POTUS) for Great Service to Our Country, "Thank you sir!" WATCH: youtu.be/3aKQBQdcwuQ
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Frank Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) April 04, 2016****
Leaked documents detail how the wealthy and powerful hide money overseas lat.ms/1RH0NOO https://t.co/wXOWHdbVu2
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Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 03, 2016What are the Panama Papers? What you need to know about the biggest leak in history gu.com/p/4tvyz/stw #PanamaPapers
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Katharine Viner (@KathViner) April 03, 2016****
President Obama once again taking action while Congress abdicates its responsibilities and takes a paycheck
Pentagon to send about a dozen Guantanamo inmates to other countries soon reut.rs/22Qqzus
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Reuters Top News (@Reuters) March 31, 2016Just in: #Guantanamo parole board's cleared Yemeni Ayyub Ali Salih. Now, 37 of 91 captives on Gitmo transfer list. https://t.co/5KFAx9CoOh
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Carol Rosenberg (@carolrosenberg) March 24, 2016****
Nobody should have to choose between losing a paycheck & caring for their family. I applaud @NYGovCuomo for taking a big step on paid leave.
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President Obama (@POTUS) April 04, 2016****
“And this is the real news: Everyone is entitled to it—no matter the size of your workplace, no matter whether you have a full-time or part-time position. As soon as you’ve been an employee for at least six months, this time is yours (and your partner’s) to take. Better yet, the new law ensures that your job will be there when you get back. Until now, only workers who have met certain requirements at companies that employ more than 50 people have been given that protection. Thanks to this bill, that’s one less crisis for new moms and dads to worry about.”
New York just passed a great paid-leave policy for parents: trib.al/aK4Zza0 https://t.co/lPnntvzmVO
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ELLE Magazine (US) (@ELLEmagazine) April 01, 2016****
In this map I've circled the places you need to get blown up in if you want to make headlines: https://t.co/mVMwTpA7Bq
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Duncan Trussell PhD (@duncantrussell) March 23, 2016feminism is: 👩🏻👩🏼👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿=👨🏻👨🏼👨🏽👨🏾👨🏿
not:👩🏻👩🏼👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿>👨🏻👨🏼👨🏽👨🏾👨🏿
black lives matter is: 👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿👨🏿👨🏾👨🏿=👨🏻👩🏻👩🏼👩🏻👨🏼
not:👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿👨🏾👨🏿>👨🏻👩🏻👩🏼👨🏼👩🏻
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Himo (@HimoKash) March 30, 2016****
Legalize it, sure, but if we do not address the huge racial disparities at the heart of the matter, the barrier between those who are allowed to open up pot shops and profit 1000% and those who are arrested for using the same drug that their white counterparts freely use, the issue is pretty much moot
Pot legalization hasn’t done anything to shrink the racial gap in drug arrests wapo.st/1pEEIcS
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(@Wonkblog) March 21, 2016Took 85 yo black woman 2 years, 4 trips to DMV, 2 trips to SC & $86 to get voter ID in NC thenation.com/article/north-… https://t.co/VUtA8YLdxT
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 14, 2016****
.@POTUS revealed that @google has made arrangements to upgrade Internet access in Cuba: ow.ly/ZKYJ4 https://t.co/Cgki8dT9fF
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EBONY MAGAZINE (@EBONYMag) March 21, 2016The back story on the Obama/Cuba secret negotiations is pretty nuts: motherjones.com/politics/2015/… https://t.co/6uPIpWr8wS
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Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) March 20, 2016****
A Trump rally https://t.co/zIF69lGsk2
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zellie (@zellieimani) March 13, 2016President Obama deconstructs every element of Trump.... And does so brilliantly, as a comedy routine. youtube.com/watch?v=WtNiD3…
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Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) March 13, 2016
The Obama Diary 
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