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...The firm’s latest annual DEI report, published over the Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend in the US, also dropped a pledge to award 40 per cent of its procurement spending to minority-owned suppliers...
...She was the oldest child of Martin Luther King Sr, a Baptist preacher, and Alberta Williams, a teacher. King was born 16 months after Farris....
...During Marcos Sr’s two decades in power, he plundered billions of dollars worth of state assets, according to Philippine officials who have tried to recover it after his 1986 ouster in a popular revolt....
...Marc FilippinoThat’s the FT’s John Reed....
...The turbulent year we’ve just lived through often feels like a flashback to 1968, a year marked by high-profile murders (of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy), racial tensions and protests, a fiercely...
...Mr Warnock is the fifth senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr preached with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr, until his assassination in 1968....
...Erin Meyer, co-author with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings of No Rules Rules (shortlist, 2020), recommended Made to Stick (2007), Dan and Chip Heath’s “entertaining, practical guide to communication”, and...
...“The Republicans in our state are clearly taking a stand here, in order to stem the tide of the growth of the Democratic party in the south,” said Kasim Reed, the former Democratic mayor of Atlanta....
...“They shot my son seven times,” his father, Jacob Blake Sr, told reporters on Tuesday. “Seven times. Like he didn’t matter. But my son matters. He’s a human being, and matters.”...
...A slight young man buzzing with nervous energy, White has a message for the handful of people who happen to drift by this Washington DC street corner close to where Martin Luther King Jr Avenue meets Malcolm...
...The exercise has put the Marcos name — notorious for many years because of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr — back in the headlines....
...At an electric rally last Friday in a church that once hosted Martin Luther King, Mr O’Rourke talked about universal healthcare, equal access to education and changing drug laws that send a disproportionate...
...“A Moore victory would jeopardise the seat in the December general election,” said Scott Reed, the political strategist at the US chamber of commerce, which backed Mr Strange....
...He quoted Martin Luther King’s assertion that “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor”....
...When the same piece, John Luther Adams’s “Inuksuit”, was performed a few years ago in Manhattan, dozens of percussionists lurked among the foliage of Morningside Park, their hand-cranked sirens mingling...
...A lot has changed in the decades since Martin Luther King dared to dream in public....
...“The recent attacks by the Israeli regime against BDS are akin to the Ku Klux Klan accusing Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks of racism,” said Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian campaigner and co-founder of...
...Mr Shaath said, contrasting what he described as the Obama administration’s willingness to support Israeli negotiating demands in the talks with tougher stands taken by former US presidents George Bush Sr...
...Is this Martin Luther King’s movement? “Absolutely,” Nzambi replies. “It is a way of seeing people as having intrinsic value. It is a philosophy of hope.”...
...His father, Eugene Sr, was a flying instructor and football coach there and was to found three airlines, one of which became TWA....
...Back in the 1960s, Martin Luther King used to gnaw on ribs at Aleck’s Barbecue Heaven, Atlanta. Nowadays hedge fund honchos pick up orders to take on their private jets....
...To the reed, the dancers bow luxuriously before their demigod king (Jamar Roberts, perfectly typecast)....
...“The first thing that goes when people get in trouble is the toys – the Ferrari, the Lamborghini,” says Tom Hartley Sr, a specialist dealer based in Overseal, south Derbyshire, who buys and sells new or...
...Mr Obama issued a call to service on a day he visited wounded army personnel at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington and helped paint walls at a homeless teenagers’ shelter in the Capitol Hill district...
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