@cdarwin@c.imToday is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL to honor MLK with 'Choose Love' in end zone https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47639329/nfl-honor-martin-luther-king-jr-choose-love-end-zone
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot“My father warned us, ‘When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind,’” Bernice King, the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote of Pretti’s murder. “What we are witnessing now (masked raids, people taken without due process, vigilante, Gestapo, and slave patrol-like tactics, normalized under the color of law) is a moral crisis.”
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@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialEmpire State Building is lit up in red, black and green tonight to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.
Happy Martin Luther King Day everyone!
#us
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump signs MLK Day proclamation, faces criticism from some groups (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/19/donald-trump-doesnt-acknowledge-martin-luther-king-jr-day/88252240007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260119/p104#a260119p104
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialIn at the last minute! 2nd track was Vancouver jokers The Plodes' "Horses and Gasoline"
"Martin Luther King fights crime on the surface of the Sun with Karl Marx,
Louis Riel casts a spell and gains control of great white sharks,
Albert Einstein fires a rocket into Rockefeller's face,
FDR defeats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a race
"Horses and gasoline, apple juice and Vaseline
White-Out and mice, concrete and rice...."
@cdarwin@c.imExactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …
@newstik@social.heise.de"A man might be afraid his home will get bombed, ...or he's afraid that he will get shot, or beat down by state troopers, and he may go on and live until he's 80. He's just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. The cessation of breathing in his life is merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaMastodon. No, no son horas. Hoy estoy como Martin Luther King... Tengo un sueño...
@danyork@mastodon.socialRE: https://werd.social/@ben/115922020066739276
Wow! Very prophetic words of Dr Martin Luther King in 1967! (The rest of the text surrounding this quote - about 2/3 the way down the speech - is also quite powerful to read.)
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialDie USA sprechen erneut Sanktionen gegen Richter des #Weltstrafgerichts aus.
Ich erwarte von der Bundesregierung und EU Rat sich energisch dagegen einzusetzen.
Denn diese Sanktionen sind ein Angriff auf die Unabhängigkeit einer unparteiischen Justizbehörde, die wichtig für ein friedliches Zusammenleben der Völker sind.
@gfriend@mas.toA reminder, on Martin Luther King Day, that immigration is one of the things that has always made America great. And worth remembering that if the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, it is we who must bend it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XmUp3Ca-kWE
@wraithe@mastodon.socialMy Traditional MLK Day post:
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Rastafari Elders:
🎵 Martin Luther King
#TheRastafariElders
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony
On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, music to mark the American civil rights leader by Duke Ellington and the first symphony by an American female composer.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pjm9
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is just the worst!
The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule
so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year,
while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.
https://bsky.app…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Max Romeo:
🎵 Tribute to Martin Luther King
#MaxRomeo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0n0e2qZvDpzExX3WvE18MK
@Defiance@sfba.socialFree entry to a lot of CA state parks on MLK Day! 😃
#StateParks #nature #outdoors #hiking
