Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrated today, has been celebrated repeatedly in song. Stevie Wonder's “Happy Birthday,” a straightforward tribute released in 1981, was instrumental in helping to establish the national holiday commemorating King's birth.Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, so before we start our normal schedule of home tours and design ideas, I wanted to take a moment to pause and honor the work and life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There are aATLANTA — The nation was honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday – the same day it celebrated the inauguration of the first black president to his second term. A quirk in the calendar pushed President Barack Obama's publicBefore Martin Luther King Jr. marched in Alabama and on the Washington mall, Jackie Robinson marched around the bases on major league ball fields. King was 18 years old when Robinson broke the modern color barrier in America's pastime. Robinson'sLike Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell, Václav Havel, and the very best of our political/literary heroes, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
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