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Inauguration a 'Milestone' in Vision of MLK

 

Published 1/19/2009 by Tammy Haddad at Wash Post Federal Page

The Rev. Bernice King, the youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, sat down for an interview with washingtonpost.com in advance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King, a minister at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., discussed how the election of... (link)

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