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MLK Day Reflections Move Through Nation and Atlanta
Bernice King urged nonviolence at Ebenezer Baptist Church as commemorations marked the 47th MLK Day. Across cities protests highlighted police violence, with mentions of Brown Garner and Rice, while Obama visited a Boys and Girls Clubs site to aid youth literacy efforts.
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Martin Luther King Jr
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Bernice King
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Dr. King
Michael Brown
Ferguson
Eric Garner
New York City
Tamir Rice
Cleveland
America
Alabama State University
Gwendolyn Boyd
Ebenezer Baptist
Brown
Garner
New York
Bill de Blasio
Staten Island Grand Jury
de Blasio
Brooklyn
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harris- Stowe State University
Denver
Barack Obama
Washington
Obama
Michelle
Maria
Boys and Girls Clubs
Greater Washington
Philadelphia
King Day
Selma
Alabama
Edmund Pettus Bridge
David Oyelowo
Oyelowo
U.S
John Lewis
Montgomery
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