15th Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally & March Focuses on Escalating the Struggle
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Cross spectrum of activists speak alongside veteran Civil Rights organizer Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Global Research
Featured image: Abayomi Azikiwe chairing Detroit MLK Day Rally, Jan. 15, 2018
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 89 years old this year if he had not been gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee nearly a half century ago.
Today amid the openly racist character of the United States Government under President Donald Trump may have been partly responsible for the enhanced participation in activities commemorating the federally-recognized holiday of the martyred Civil Rights, social justice and antiwar leader who was only 39 when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Detroit has already been ranked as the top municipality for the c...