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Martin Luther King Jr. Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Personal Birth date: January 15, 1929 Death date: April 4, 1968 Birth place: Atlanta, Georgia Birth name: Michael King Jr. Father: Martin Luther King Sr., Baptist minister Mother: Alberta (Williams) King Marriage: Coretta Scott King (June 18, 1953 – April

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Hot housing market fuels decline in affordability

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — Hartford is among the five housing national markets nationwide that saw the biggest declines in affordability since June due in part to pandemic-related factors, according to a new report. First American Financial Corporation measured the price changes of single-family properties across the

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Walter Reed doctor who criticized Trump’s hospital drive-by works last shift after being removed from schedule

Dr. James Phillips, an emergency room doctor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, has been removed from his duty after publicly criticizing President Donald Trump’s drive-by around the hospital after his coronavirus diagnosis. The chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University had been contracted to Walter Reed, and was removed from the military’s

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Detained since 2018, now Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is handed a 5-year sentence

Loujain al-Hathloul, one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists, has been sentenced to five years and eight months in prison by the kingdom’s special court for terrorism offenses, according to her family. The sentence includes a two-year and 10-month suspension, in addition to time she has already served, paving the way for Hathloul

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