#martin-luther-king

#martin-luther-king

This past week, a complaint from a single parent in Florida led to a poem by Amanda Gorman being banned from Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes.Not just any poem: The parent took issue with Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," which she recited at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, making her the youngest inaugural poet in the country's history.

The bitcoin bulls are back.After getting pummeled by losses for the better part of last year, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are rallying in 2023, prompting speculation that the so-called crypto winter the digital asset world's equivalent of a bear market is over.Bitcoin, the world's most popular crypto, is up 25% over the past month, hovering above $20,000 for the first time since November, when the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's trading platform FTX sent shock waves through the industry.

A climate activist who glued himself to a Vincent Van Gogh painting suggested the artist may have agreed with his demonstration  before comparing his actions to Martin Luther King.Just Stop Oil supporters Emily Brocklebank, 24, and Louis McKechnie, 22, have been found guilty of causing just under 2,000 of criminal damage to the picture's frame.

On Friday, December 2, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff invited some lucky DCPS students to the Naval Observatory for a holiday celebration.Students, along with their teachers and chaperones, spent the afternoon decorating ornaments, singing Christmas carols, and take selfies with the vice president.

The Riverside Unified School District is grappling with at least two fights that broke out at its schools this week.The fights occurred at Ramona High School on Wednesday and Martin Luther King High School on Monday, according to the Riverside Police Department and the school district.On Wednesday at about 1 p.m., a school resource officer assigned to Ramona responded to student unrest at the end of the lunch period, the Riverside Police Department posted on Facebook.

I recall that I am extremely forgetful, announces the narrator of Percival Everett's Dr No in the novel's opening lines.I believe I am.I think I know that I am forgetful.Though I remember having forgotten, I cannot recall what it was that I forgot or what forgetting feels like.No sooner has the reader crossed the threshold of the narrative than it begins to reveal itself as a labyrinth of mirrors, an elaborate and joyously rickety construction of philosophical gags and structural paradoxes.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle joined a coalition of other county leaders in Washington, D.C., on Monday to announce an organized push for federal support of guaranteed income programs.Preckwinkle will serve as co-chair of the new national group, Counties for Guaranteed Income.Made up of county commissioners and county board leaders from around the country, it's an expansion of Mayors for Guaranteed Income.

Frank Poindexter and his family are South End royalty.Together, they run Wally's Cafe Jazz Club, a New England live music institution that Poindexter's grandfather, Joesph L. Walcott, founded in 1947.Walcott, a Barbadian immigrant, became the first Black owner of a nightclub in Boston when he opened Wally's - and he used to eat breakfast with Martin Luther King, Jr., when he lived in Boston, according to Frank.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (16 January), more than 300 Arkansas Tech University students marched silently through their campus in Russellville, Arkansas in both celebration and protest.Many students at the university took issue with an exhibition on display at the Normal Hall Art Gallery on campus, deeming its contents "racially insensitive", and used the march in part as a forum to protest the work on view.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (16 January), more than 300 Arkansas Tech University students marched silently through their campus in Russellville, Arkansas in both celebration and protest.Many students at the university took issue with an exhibition on display at the Normal Hall Art Gallery on campus, deeming its contents "racially insensitive", and used the march in part as a forum to protest the work on view.

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day 2023, which is a federal holiday.Banks and the post office and government offices will be closed but with so many people working from home these days, it may be hard to tell.Public schools are closed today too.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Local "Why'd you make it so complicated and confusing?"Boston's latest public art piece, "The Embrace," was unveiled on Boston Common Friday.The memorial is meant to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, and depicts the embrace shared between King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, after King won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The tired Washington Capitals hosted the very rested Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night.It was a low-event affair where the goalies were the difference.Alex Ovechkin set up Marty Fehervary for a gorgeous shot to get us going.Jared Spurgeon scored 50 seconds into the second period thanks to a great screen by Jordan Greenway.

Have a good, indoor time this week at an exhibition celebrating local legends of drag; enjoy a little burlesque when Dita Von Teese brings her act to Palace of Fine Arts; have a ball with the Harlem Globetrotters; and get ready for the Lunar New Year.Have a good one.Order in from House of Nanking, then watch Chef Dynasty: House of Fang on the Food Network.

PIEDMONT  It was a year of change in the Piedmont Unified School District with Superintendent Randy Booker departing for another job, principals leaving and students returning to school after the pandemic.Otherwise, the city was busy obtaining a contractor to build the new community pool complex, promoting green energy for residents and holding an election for City Council and school board officers.

Six people were injured Saturday night after a white Porsche drove through a street carnival in South Los Angeles, authorities said.The incident occurred about 8:20 p.m. on Trinity Street just north of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Historic South Central, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Nicholas Prange.

Julia Roberts poses at a red carpet premiere in London in September.That same month, she spoke publicly about her family's friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images The world is finally learning a thrilling fact about Julia Roberts' birth, exactly 55 years later: It was paid for by Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

Yes, you read that correctly.When Ticket to Paradise's Julia Roberts was born, Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta King, paid for her parents' hospital bill.The clip of Roberts talking about the historic connection resurfaced on Roberts' 55th birthday yesterday on Twitter.Roberts's parents, Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop and a children's acting school where Dr. King's children attended classes.

Arizona is in jeopardy of losing Super Bowl LVII to another state due to controversial policies from gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.As Election Day looms on the horizon, the NFL finds itself in a tug of war with Arizona's Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake.In recent interviews, Lake stated "I don't answer to the NFL.