Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Bernice King blasts brothers’ plans to sell MLK Bible
By Adelle M. Banks — February 4, 2014
(RNS) “As Mark 8:36 teaches, 'For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?'" she said. “Our Father MUST be turning in his grave. As a minister of the Gospel, the thought of selling my daddy’s Bible troubles my mind, vexes my spirit and weighs on my soul.”
‘Dear Martin’: Bishop’s letters to MLK trace the highs and lows in race relations
By Adelle M. Banks — January 16, 2014
(RNS) "While we are yet flawed by those among us who hold to racial bigotry and intolerance, they no longer define us as a nation or a people!” United Methodist Bishop Woodie White wrote in his 2014 letter to Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X’s boyhood home, MLK’s neighborhood listed as ‘endangered’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 6, 2012
(RNS) The boyhood home of Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X and the neighborhood where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born have been listed as “endangered” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. By Adelle M. Banks.
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