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Martin Luther King’s Unfinished Work Lauded
Peace,racial
equality still elude
( A P »— From the pulpit o f the church w here
M artin L uther K ing Jr. once w as pastor,
A tlanta's m ayor rem inded the congregation
M onday that his work for peace and justice
rem ains unfinished.
M a y o r S h irle y F ra n k lin a d m o n is h e d
congregants at the historic Ebenezer Baptist
C hurch not to pay tribute to King's dream on his
birthday, observed as a national holiday M on­
day, and then contradict it the next.
"M illions can't find jobs, have no health
insurance and struggle to make ends meet,
w orking m inim um w age jobs. W hat's going
on?" she said, repeating a refrain from soul
singer M arvin G aye.
"Thousands o f black and Latino students
drop out o f high school believing education
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tion that was part motivational speech, part
drama.
This year's holiday com es on the day King
w ould have turned 78. King was assassinated
w hile standing on the balcony o f a hotel in
M em phis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. His co n ­
fessed killer, Jam es Earl Ray, was arrested two
m onths later in London.
C oretta Scott King died last year on Jan. 31
at age 78. An activist in her own right, she also
fought to shape and preserve her husband's
legacy after his death, and shortly after his
death she founded w hat w ould becom e the
M artin Luther King Jr. C enter for Nonviolent
Social Change.
will not mutter and statistics say it doesn't
because they can't find jo b s ... What's going
on ?"
Earlier in the service. Georgia's newly elected
congressm an. Rep. Hank Johnson, paid tribute
to King's children and their late mother, Coretta
Scott King, w ho died nearly a year ago.
"On this day we honor their sacrifice and
com m itm ent, and w e must carry on their work,"
said Johnson, a Democrat. "Today as we salute
Dr. King, we also lift up the life and work o f Mrs.
King who left us last year."
In a cerem ony Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist
Church. King's eldest daughter evoked the civil
rights movement while reminding those rem em ­
bering her parents that Am erica has not yet
reached the prom ised land o f peace and racial
equality.
"We must keep reaching across the table
and, in the tradition o f Martin Luther King Jr.
and C oretta Scott King, feed each other,"
Yolanda King said Sunday during a presenta­
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Gospel singer Byron Cage performs
during a service to mark the 78th
birthday o f Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,
as King's nephew, Isaac Newton Farris,
looks on. (AP photo)
Obama Moves Toward Bid
With presidential exploratory committee
(A P) - D em ocratic Sen. Barack gaps but have still only touched a an Indonesian student and the fam ­
ily m oved to Jakarta. O bam a re­
O bam a on Tuesday took the initial fraction o f the public.
N onetheless, he ranks as a top turned to Hawaii when he was lO to
step in a presidential bid that could
m ake him the nation's first black to contender. His appeal on the stump, li ve with his maternal grandparents.
O bam a is agraduateofC olum bia
his unique background, his oppo­
occupy the W hite House.
O bam a filed papers creating a sition to the Iraq w ar and the fact University and Harvard Law School,
presidential exploratory committee, that he is a fresh face set him apart where he was the first A frican-
a move he announced on his W eb in a com petitive race that also is A m erican elected ed ito r o f the
site. He said he w ould announce expected to include front-runner H arvard Law Review. He settled in
more about his plans in his home Sen. Hillary RrxlhamClinton ofNew Chicago, where he joined a law firm
and taught constitutional law
state o f Illinois on Feb. 10.
at the University o f Chicago's
"I certainly didn’t expect to
Law School. He also helped
find m yself in this position a
local churches establish job
year ago," O bam a said in a
training program s for resi­
v id eo p o stin g . "I've been
dents o f poor neighborhoods
struck by how hungry we all
and organized a m ajor voter
are fora different kind o f poli­
registration drive in the 1992
tics. So I've spent som e time
election.
thinking about how I could
W hile w orking at the cor­
best advance the cause o f
porate law firm Sidley Austin
change and progress that we
in the sum m erof 1989, Obama
so desperately need."
met M ichelle Robinson, then
O bam a, a 45-year-old with
an associate attorney at the
little more than tw o years into
17. S. Sen Barack Obama looks out over
firm. They married in 1992,
his Senate term , is the most
the congregation o f St. Mark Cathedral
an
d h av e tw o d a u g h te rs.
inexperienced candidate co n ­
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King Jr. birthday celebration in Harvey,
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1996,
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III., Monday, (AP photo)
the
Illinois
state
Senate, where
rose to national prom inence,
he
earned
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beginning with his keynote speech
sus-building
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w ho was
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at the 2004 D em ocratic National
Convention and his election to the in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, where strongly liberal on social and eco­
Senate that year, but still is an un­ his parents met w hile studying at nomic issues. He backed gay rights,
the University o f Hawaii. His father abortion rights, gun control, uni­
known quantity to many voters.
T w o best-selling au to b io g ra­ was black and from Kenya; his versal health care and tax breaks for
phies — "The Audacity o f Hope: mother, w hite and from W ichita, the poor, but set him self apart from
others by w orking with opponents
Thoughts on Reclaiming the Ameri­ Kan.
O bam a's parents divorced when to resolve policy disagreem ents and
can Dream" and "D ream s from My
Father: A Story o f Race and Inher­ he was two and his father returned refusing to becom e a rubber stam p
itance" — have helped fill in the to Kenya. His m other later married for his allies.
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