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Remembering King’s last sermon with renewed hope
By Adelle M. Banks — March 28, 2018
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — One of the two surviving sanitation workers who went on strike in 1968 and who remain on the job today recalled King's last sermon and his continuing legacy.
Faith leaders mark 50th anniversary of Memphis sanitation workers’ deaths
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2018
(RNS) — It was the labor action over harsh working conditions triggered by the deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker that prompted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to travel to Memphis, Tenn., where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Catholic bishops side with labor unions in Supreme Court case
By Jack Jenkins — January 20, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops equated the effect of a potential ruling against public sector unions' rights to collect fees from nonmembers to landmark decisions that legalized abortion and same-sex marriage.
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