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Devotionals and Forums

Martin Luther King III promotes the 'beloved community'

By Lilli Vehikite
September 28, 2021 12:00 AM
Human rights advocate Martin Luther King III discussed the ideal “beloved community” during his Sept. 28 forum address.
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Nation

Admirers mourn King, pledge to carry on unfinished work

By Associated Press
April 09, 2018 12:00 AM
People gather for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Featured

Things you should know today: 4/9/18

By Mckayla Robinson
April 09, 2018 12:00 AM
https://youtu.be/8Pn0y04nWcY
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Nation

Speeches, marches mark Martin Luther King anniversary

By Associated Press
April 04, 2018 12:00 AM
People gather for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. King was assassinated April 4, 1968, while in Memphis supporting striking sanitation workers. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Nation

Things you should know today: 4/4/18

By Riley Waldman
April 04, 2018 12:00 AM
China lists $50 billion of U.S. goods it might hit with 25 percent tariff
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Nation

Martin Luther King Jr.'s work still resonates across Africa

By Associated Press
April 02, 2018 12:00 AM
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Streets. Schools. A bridge in Burkina Faso. The name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. can be found across Africa, a measure of the global influence of the American civil rights leader who was shot dead 50 years ago after speaking out against injustices at home and abroad.
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Nation

LDS Church releases statement on Charlottesville riots

By Sam Bigelow
August 14, 2017 12:00 AM
White nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police dressed in riot gear ordered people to disperse after chaotic violent clashes between white nationalists and counter protestors. (AP Photo)
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Campus News

Students, community discuss Black Lives Matter

By Brandon Klatskin
August 10, 2017 12:00 AM
It was a bright, cool day when three female BYU students walked into the open-aired grove located in the middle of the Joseph Smith Building on the campus of Brigham Young University. One student had a Black Lives Matter shirt gripped in her hand, another wearing a shirt that had huge letters across the chest area that read “Nah,” and at the lower end of the shirt that read “Rosa Parks.” All three students opened up about their experiences of being Black Lives Matter supporters, black students at a majority-caucasian campus and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Nation

Some civil rights sites at risk of being lost to history

By Cassidy Hansen
September 07, 2016 12:00 AM
A statue of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where advocates say officials are doing a good job at preserving sites links to civil rights. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Local

HB338 'Juneteenth' passes committee in goal to become state-recognized holiday

By Jaren Wood
February 25, 2016 12:00 AM
The sponsor of HB338 is trying to make 'Juneteenth,' a day commemorating the abolition of slavery, an official day of state observance in Utah.
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Nation

Update: Last of Oregon refuge occupiers surrenders

February 11, 2016 12:00 AM
The last four armed occupiers of the national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon said they would turn themselves in Thursday morning, after law officers surrounded them in a tense standoff. (Associated Press)
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Campus Events

Civil rights activist and Baptist minister speaks at BYU

By Whitney Hales
January 20, 2016 12:00 AM
He was in Washington, D.C. when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream. He marched from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate for African-Americans' voting rights. He's a respected religious leader. And he's speaking at BYU on Thursday, Jan. 21.
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Campus Events

BYU students attend MLK Walk of Life and Commemoration

By Jessica Banuelos
January 19, 2016 12:00 AM
Students and families gather at the Centennial Carillon Bell Tower to begin the Walk of Life and Commemoration of MLK.
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Religion

Parliament of the World's Religions: Heroism embodied in Mandela, King

By Cassidy Hansen
October 18, 2015 12:00 AM
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell recalled how her granddaughter was asking her family for help in learning about civil rights activist Martin Luther King, when her family told her that she should ask her grandmother instead, because she knew King.
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Nation

Blacks torn between anger, mercy for Charleston shooter

July 07, 2015 12:00 AM
Rev. Norvel Goff prays at the empty seat of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of Pinckney and eight others in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool, File)
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Campus

BYU Civil rights trip: Helping students see more than black and white

By Kristina Tieken
February 14, 2014 12:00 AM
A BYU class with a five-day tour of Civil Rights Movement sites helps students connect with recent history and understand expectations for the future.
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Local

King's dream 50 years later

By Megan Looney
January 25, 2013 12:00 AM
Clarence B. Jones, civil rights adviser, attorney and speech writer to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., greeted a packed audience at UVU's Sorenson Center ballroom on Thursday by singing a verse of a post-Civil War freedom song.
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Nation

Nation honors MLK Jr. on day of Obama inauguration

January 21, 2013 12:00 AM
ATLANTA (AP) — The nation was honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday — the same day it celebrated the inauguration of the first black president to his second term.
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