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...“When I look at all the monuments around here,” she says, gesturing towards a new sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr, “I feel proud to be in Massachusetts.”...
...And you know, that cameras always trained on Biden and vice-president Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. And Mike Johnson, by my count, stood up maybe only twice when he was clapping....
...She, a junior Johnson aide who ultimately became LBJ’s biographer, felt the decade’s greatest liberal achievements — particularly in civil rights — were Johnson’s masterwork....
...Britt Harris is retiring from the largest university endowment in the US at the age of 65. There is nothing unusual about that, except for his message on the way out....
...Britt, for his part, describes Schultz as “the originator of the tribal knowledge” in Starbucks....
...Despite the union movement’s successes, chief strategy officer Frank Britt said Starbucks’ staff turnover rates had fallen from a 2021 peak of around 22 per cent above 2019’s level to just 97 per cent of...
...It was similar to hearing Martin Luther King’s voice on the radio.” When he died in 2016, Chuck was bereft....
...But in 2021 the then prime minister Boris Johnson’s spokesperson said, regarding the Parthenon Marbles, that it was “a matter purely for the museum”, which would give equal discretion to the trustees regarding...
...Other US companies: Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, arms group Lockheed Martin, toymaker Hasbro and oilfield services company Halliburton are reporting today before the bell....
...Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, has been adamant that the upper chamber of Congress will vote on changing its rules no later than Martin Luther King Jr Day on January 17 to pave the way for Democrats...
...But Tubbs says the US is merely “picking up where the Great Society (Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty) left off”....
...Having said that, it is a brave soul that bets against Boris Johnson’s remarkable survival instinct, as this comprehensive analysis by the FT’s political team laid bare last week....
...Business Roundtable called the Minneapolis police officer’s conviction “a step towards justice”, the heads of JPMorgan and Starbucks spoke of fighting systemic racism, and Tim Cook of Apple quoted Martin Luther...
...“The walls of black people’s homes like mine were decorated with velvet glow-in-the-dark pieces; almost all had portraits of Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King and John F Kennedy,” he says, speaking over Zoom...
...While based in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, he met Alma Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, then an audiologist in Boston....
...Mr Biden brought in busts of Martin Luther King Jr, the civil rights icon, and Robert F Kennedy, the former attorney-general, who were both assassinated in 1968, as he took office, replacing the decor chosen...
...The BLF’s Zainab Abbas avers, “I was never a fan of Martin Luther King’s ‘turn the other cheek’ . . . I was attracted to people like Malcolm X.”...
...southern regional director of SEIU Workers United, the labour union, said: “These big corporations that are headquartered here, they always celebrate the civil rights movement, as they should, with Martin Luther...
...In the refurbishment of the Oval Office, Mr Biden has chosen likenesses of Robert F Kennedy, US civil rights activists Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and union leader César Chávez....
...Ron Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin who blocked Juneteenth legislation last year, had estimated the cost at $600m a year for federal employees alone....
...Martin Luther King said that in a crisis there is such a thing as being too late. Last year we lost thousands of lives because the world failed to co-operate....
...“We’ve got to give [Biden] a chance,” says Tharon Johnson, a Democratic strategist in Atlanta and founder of Paramount Consulting....
...Mr Sharpton addressed the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial, alongside Martin Luther King III....
...Martin Luther King Jr called that act “a second emancipation”. But it had been achieved only at a price....
...The de Menils gifted an edition of the work to the city of Houston in 1969, dedicating it to Martin Luther King Jr....
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