Martin Luther King

"Faith makes all things possible. Bravery makes all things easier. And love creates happiness," read the message on the inside of a handmade Valentine's Day card. And it was signed, "With a universe full of love, Sophie. " It was one of dozens of valentines made for members of the military in hospitals or overseas by teenagers from Baltimore schools, just one of the service projects students undertook on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. "I know what it is like to have someone in the military," said Michael Roundtree, a senior at New Era Academy and one of the student leaders of the service day. His brother is a Marine in Afghanistan.

These editorials ran in The Sun in April, 1968, in the days following the death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Friday, April 5, 1968 The killing of Martin Luther King is a national tragedy, the consequences of which are not readily foreseeable. His was the voice of inspiration for millions of American Negroes. His was the marching figure of undaunted insistence on individual rights and respect. From the 1965 days of the Montgomery (Ala.) bus boycott, his was the stride toward freedom that remained unbroken and drew an impressive following while others faltered or flamed out and went off in diverse directions.

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday will be commemorated on Monday, and the mainstream media will depict King as a benign figure who might have stepped out of a Hallmark card. What is emphasized is King's fight for racial equality — certainly laudable and worthy of celebration. What is downplayed, often ignored, is King's challenge to this country to recognize and correct an economic inequality that has deleterious effects on both black and white Americans. In addition to his opposition to the Vietnam War, King warned us that, "a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Baltimore police are investigating the non-fatal shooting of a man on Martin Luther King Boulevard Thursday night. The 23-year-old was shot in the left shoulder at about 8:10 p.m. in the 300 block of N. Martin Luther King Boulevard, police said. He also had a graze wound to the abdomen, according to police. No further information was available. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

Throughout its history, the National Mall in Washington has been the site of protests and rallies by Americans seeking redress of grievances, yet few have been so consequential as the 1963 March on Washington that provided the occasion for the Rev. Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech. In that memorable oration, King summed up African-Americans' struggle for civil rights by calling on the nation to live up to its historic promise of equal justice and opportunity for all. Today, a coalition of progressive activists will gather on the Mall to reaffirm King's expansive vision of social justice, though in a very different context than the one that framed the 1963 march.