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Brian Gralnick of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia is working to help 91-year-old Holocaust Survivor Sylvia Genoy keep her home in Northeast Philadelphia.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia is seeking support to help survivors stay safely and comfortably in their homes.

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Still from wreck found by reporter: may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say. (AL.com)

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Reporter may have discovered Clotilda, the last American slave ship

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Arts & Entertainment

Temple student’s ’76 documentary on race accepted into National Film Registry

A lyrical, political documentary made by a Temple University student in 1976 is accepted by the Library of Congress into the National Film Registry.

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First

Arts & Entertainment

A financial boost for Delaware historic sites

First State National Historical Park awards Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs funds to preserve sites like John Dickinson Plantation in Dover.

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Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala. She testified:

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Meet the fearless cook who secretly fed — and funded — the civil rights movement

Georgia Gilmore used the profits from selling her food to others in the movement to help pay for alternative transportation in Montgomery during the 381-day bus boycot.

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Radio Times

Lifestyle

Poetry, race relations, and MLK

Guests: Tracy K. Smith, Jonathan Rieder, Michael Eric Dyson For today’s Martin Luther King Holiday, we’re goi ...

Air Date: January 15, 2018

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The Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson with Coretta Scott King and Bishop Walker. (Courtesy Rev. Casson)

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Vowing to uphold MLK’s mission

Some called Martin Luther King Jr. a visionary. Others called him a troublemaker. For Wilmington minister Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson, he was an inspiration.

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures and shouts to his congregation in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. on April 30, 1967 as he urges America to repent and abandon what he called its

Politics & Policy

Leaders say Trump presidency is at odds with MLK’s legacy

The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump's presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump's own making.

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Museum of the American Revolution educator Dan Center identifies landmarks in a 7-foot-long painting by Pierre L'Enfant. It is the only known depiction of George Washington's headquarters tent in use in the field.

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Revolutionary War army comes to life in newly discovered painting

The Museum of the American Revolution displays a newly acquired, 7-foot watercolor of the Continental Army, circa 1782, that was painted from life.

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Dion Diamond listens with his eyes closed to George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party, at a

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The civil rights activist whose name you’ve probably never heard

Dion Diamond was sitting at a "whites-only" lunch counter in Arlington, Va., in 1960 when a crowd started gathering around him.

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PlanPhilly

Urban Planning

Retracing Martin Luther King Jr.’s steps through Philadelphia

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Speak Easy

Community

This is why King’s life, legacy, and hope still matter

Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental in moving us forward, but much work remains to be done. I am hopeful for the future, because I believe there is more good than bad.

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Charles Howard is shown in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia

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Continuing King’s fight, with love in the age of hate

This year, we as a nation should not celebrate King Day. It’s not that Dr. King does not deserve this national holiday. It is America that does not deserve to celebrate him.

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