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The Boston Traveler

April 5th, 2008

Martin Luther King, James Brown, and Boston

Forty years ago yesterday, on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The very next night, “Soul Brother Number One” and “Godfather of Soul” James Brown (1933–2006) was scheduled to perform a concert at the Boston Garden in Massachusetts.
Yet, after word […]

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March 19th, 2008

Anita Hill Speaks Truth, Gets Award

What American who was at least a teenager, or possibly even younger, at the time doesn’t remember 1991? In October of that year, brave yet reluctant attorney Anita Hill was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
Her appearance led to testimony regarding allegations that Thomas […]

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January 21st, 2008

Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a Dream

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, an official federal holiday that commemorates the January 15th birthday of one of the country’s most well-known civil rights leaders.
Among the minister’s famous speeches is the one that still resounds around the world almost 45 years after it was originally delivered at the Lincoln […]

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