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Steven W Thrasher: Al Sharpton and the legacy civil rights groups are following the same unrproductive script – and it’s the opposite of the young, actually successful protests behind #BlackLivesMatter
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From the Guardian archive From the archive, 12 December 1964: Martin Luther King stops off in the UK
Originally published in the Guardian on 12 December 1964: Before collecting his Nobel prize in Oslo, the American civil rights leader visited immigrant communities and inspired the British civil rights movement -
If race relations in Britain look bad now, it’s because we’ve come such a long way
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Controversial mayor of Washington DC caught in a notorious FBI crack cocaine sting
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Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles to spread the message of peace around the world. Here he gives his recipe for a better world
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Howard G. Buffett plans to give items unseen for years to an institute to 'preserve them for the American people'
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Winfrey, who is also producing the movie, will take on the role of police-defying Annie Lee Cooper
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AP photographer Charles Tasnadi captured the mood of the crowd with this darkly atmospheric image, taken outside the Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta on the eve of Martin Luther King's funeral
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When Martin Luther King gave up his guns
Mark Engler and Paul Engler for Waging Nonviolence, part of the Guardian Comment NetworkMark Engler and Paul Engler for Waging Nonviolence: King became an icon of pacifism, but he also believed in confrontational direct action
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Jesse Jackson recalls the thrill of meeting Nelson Mandela and draws some parallels with Martin Luther King
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The struggles for civil rights in the US and South Africa had many parallels. But we didn't just talk about politics – he loved boxing more than anything
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JFK's murder in Dallas in November 1963 terrified black America, says Candace Allen. Would his death be a disastrous setback, or could it be the catalyst for change?
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Forest Whitaker is quietly powerful as a White House servant who lived through the long battle for civil rights, writes Mark Kermode
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Fifty years after JFK's assassination, the questions – and the books – keep coming, writes Ed Vulliamy
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On the fifth anniversary of Barack Obama's acceptance address, David Edgar explores what unites – and divides – the great American speeches of the last 150 years
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From Martin Luther King Jr to black power, these books on the US civil rights struggle show how relevant the issues still are, writes historian John A Kirk
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Long-gestating film about civil rights leader aiming to hire Django Unchained actor and World Trade Center director
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Operation Minaret set up in 1960s to monitor anti-Vietnam critics, branded 'disreputable if not outright illegal' by NSA itself
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Maude Ballou is auctioning items including handwritten notes and page from 'I Have a Dream' speech
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Civil rights veteran calls for action to stamp out generations of racial injustice and stop minorities being 'locked out'
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Hugh Muir: I was asked what relevance King's speech has in 21st-century Britain. Have you looked the employment market, or the so-called 'war on drugs' recently?
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The BBC's masterly documentary about Martin Luther King was so good that it ought to be on the national curriculum, writes Euan Ferguson
Selma cast and crew wear 'I can't breathe' T-shirts to New York premiere