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...He met Che Guevara; wrote LBJ’s famous “we shall overcome” civil rights speech, delivered to Congress just days after Martin Luther King marched in Selma; and organised McCarthy’s remarkable New Hampshire...
...We might sometimes forget that MLK did not set out to become a world-changing leader, the Martin Luther King Jr we know him as....
...And the mayor of Hoboken is openly musing about challenging the first-term representative Robert Menendez Jr for the congressional seat delivered to him by his father....
...Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, Philippines’ president Ferdinand Marcos Jr and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are also reportedly coming....
...Henry ManceFT chief features writer Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is a fascinating depiction of Martin Luther King Jr — his brilliance, his flaws and his many shameless opponents....
...Originally called The Towers, it was owned by the railroad magnate Robert Young and his wife Anita O’Keeffe (sister of artist Georgia O’Keeffe)....
...Cyrus Vance, Jr The man who succeeded the legendary Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan district attorney and launched the Trump investigation in 2018....
...The actor Robert Downey Jr created his own Instagram reel when she sent him samples to try. “He was so sweet. I’m friends with Robert and his wife Susan, but I didn’t ask him to do that,” she says....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....
...Extending this loose dynasty, “King of the Jungle”, a sculptural seat with a bottle wrapped in chains, hinting at addiction as a new enslavement, is by Dial’s son Thornton Jr....
...King defended the chair’s son’s suitability for the role....
...The protagonist, King David, is truly a villain, but through the eloquence of the text you begin to sympathise with him....
...A video of the 1963 March on Washington plays on a large screen — not just Martin Luther King Jr’s memorable speech, but close-ups of protesters singing, shouting and chanting....
...Sleeps up to four, from $200 a night; a cook costs $30 per day (airbnb.com/h/ushawishikilifi) Disappointment A line-item in my annual accounts I’ve just signed off....
...It claims Robert Downey Jr as a neighbour, but most folks would hardly know the estate is even there. Sprawling compounds are common in this billionaire’s playground some 100 miles east of Manhattan....
...Jenkins had worked with Robert Kennedy Jr to co-produce a film called Medical Racism: The New Apartheid, which warned black people against vaccines....
...So, while inspired by the 2015 documentary of the same name by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon, Best of Enemies also sketches in backstage scenes that add complexity....
...Corbin & King restaurants have counted the pop star Victoria Beckham and actor Robert Downey Jr among their guests, while the artist Lucian Freud dined at the Wolseley most nights before his death in 2011...
...There’s a similar post-HoC issue with Edwina Currie, Robert Kilroy-Silk, and Kezia Dugdale (h/t the i paper for putting together a list)....
...Off the court, he was a civil-rights leader who marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr. and had an interminable competitive spirit and humour to boot....
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...An object I would never part with is a shovel from the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in DC, in November 2006....
...I meet Robert Williamson in the historic house where King William of Orange stayed when he first arrived in Northern Ireland. Robert grew up on a housing estate that was predominantly paramilitary....
...She tells me she wants to get more involved in local politics as we turn on to Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. The art deco facade of The Grey stands before us....
...US markets were closed today for Martin Luther King Jr Day....
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