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Remember the real MLK, the left says

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis

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In this April 3, 1968 file photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. AP/Charles Kelly
By Bria Felicien
April 4, 2018

1. Jesse Jackson: How Dr. King lived is why he died

In The New York Times: "We owe it to Dr. King to commemorate the man in full: a radical, ecumenical, antiwar, pro-immigrant and scholarly champion of the poor."

2. MLK was complicated. We should remember him that way.

From The Washington Post: "I learned of MLK's death as a teen in the segregated South. The activist was more complicated than history remembers him."

3. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, he was less popular than Donald Trump is today

From USA TODAY: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a revolution in values with an expansive political agenda despite backlash to his controversial views."

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