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Thousands emerge for MLK memorial dedication

...witness the memorial's dedication. She said it was a long time coming and had been a priority for her mother, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006. Bernice King and her brother Martin Luther King III said their father's dream is not yet realized...

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Names and faces

...included Bill Cosby as master of ceremonies, Stevie Wonder, Issac Hayes, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson and Coretta Scott King. Millionaire finds dream woman DALLAS (AP) -- After getting nearly 40,000 interested takers, millionaire Mike...

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Peck, Small win top honors in children's literature

...author of "Miracle Boys," and Bryan Collier, illustrator for "Uptown," were named the 2001 winners of the Coretta Scott King Awards honoring black authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults.

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Young urges acceptance of Bush, calls on President-elect to unify country

...Marlena said. "I don't think there would be so much hatred." On the day King would have turned 72, his widow, Coretta Scott King, asked Americans to keep her husband's "vibrant spirit of unconditional love" alive by working for peace, justice...

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Bush links King to education overhaul plan

...White House on Monday to commemorate the federal King holiday. Among those scheduled to attend are King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and one of her two daughters, the Rev. Bernice King, the White House said. First lady Laura Bush will go to...

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Education
Thirty-four years after his death, King is just a myth to many young Americans

...And how he saved blacks from prejudice people." Coretta Scott King, King's widow, said her husband's teachings...Martin's message was a very hopeful one," Coretta Scott King said in an interview last week with The Associated...

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King's message of love still lingers

...one of his daughters, Yolanda, asked, ''Mommy, should I hate the man who killed my daddy?'' His widow, Coretta Scott King, according to her autobiography, told their daughter, ''No, darling, your daddy wouldn't want you to do...

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Opinion
Lovers, love abound in valentine books

...There are royal couples (Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth) and historic couples (the Rev. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King); and couples who write (Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman), paint (Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo) and cook...

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Entertainment
'Bloody Sunday' anniversary becomes a healing event

...encountered violence, he said, ''the marchers, thank God, would not take a detour in the road to freedom.'' Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader, attended, as did Andrew Young, one of King's chief lieutenants and...

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Thousands urged to apply King principles

...purpose of what King actually stood for," he said. "We need to unite." As she did last year, King's widow, Coretta Scott King, asked people to use the holiday as a day of service. Her son Martin Luther King III brought a similar message...

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