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What MLK Would Say About The Government Shutdown

On his national holiday, it should be remembered that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King saw the civil rights movement and the union movement as allies.

Quotables

"Black women experience police brutality—yet they are often forgotten."

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Kimberle Crenshaw, executive director of the African-American Policy Forum

"I could only name two Black superheroes off the top off my head."

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Jazmin Truesdale, founder of Aza Comics

"People were quicker to shoot Black targets, relative to White targets with a gun."

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Yara Mekawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researcher