On the anniversary of MLK's assassination, King family acknowledges both progress and setbacks in racial equality

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On the anniversary of MLK's assassination, King family acknowledges both progress and setbacks in racial equality

Fifty-four years ago, an assassin's bullet took the life of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.On the evening

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