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The global Latinx community is evolving and growing fast. Alt.Latino is here to celebrate it and all of its nuances through music. Each episode, NPR Music's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with a different living legend or rising star to discuss Latinx culture, heritage, and the shared borders of our experiences. Let the chisme begin!

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Fire shoots out from a Baltimore store on Gay Street as looting erupted in a five-block business section in Baltimore on April 6, 1968. Police sealed off the area. (AP)
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50 years ago Baltimore burned. The same issues set it aflame in 2015

Lots of comparisons have made between the 1968 riots and those in 2015.

7 years ago

In this April 3, 1968 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his last public appearance at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn. The following day King was assassinated on his motel balcony. (Charles Kelly/AP Photo, File)
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King’s final speech ‘transformational’ for Philadelphia pastor

Bishop J. Louis Felton thinks about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. every day. That’s been especially true this week.

8 years ago

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Watch live: 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis

Watch live: 50th Anniversary Commemoration Martin Luther King, Jr. at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis

8 years ago

Rev. Bernice King, second from left, daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., tours an exhibit at the National Civil Rights Museum, Monday, April 2, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. The museum was formerly the Lorraine Motel, where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Community

Resilience, resolve and renewed commitment to MLK’s legacy

"Dr. King's work — our work — isn't done. We must still struggle; we must still sacrifice. We must still educate and organize and mobilize. "

8 years ago

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march
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Remembering King: The 50th Assassination Anniversary of MLK Jr.

Guests: Jason Sokol, Rev. Charles Howard, Karen Asper-Jordan, Kenneth “Freedom Smitty” Salaam Today, ...

Air Date: April 4, 2018

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Martin Luther King speaks in Atlanta in 1960.
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Courts & Law

Despite swirl of conspiracy theories, investigators say the MLK case is closed

Authorities have investigated the death of Martin Luther King Jr. five times since his murder in April 1968.

8 years ago

Martin Luther King Jr. stands with fellow civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968 -- one day before he was assassinated while standing in approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King and Ralph Abernathy.
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Community

An ‘exhausted’ Martin Luther King Jr.’s final 31 hours

That violent threat seemed to really get to King. He was used to threats, but he felt like this one in particular might be a sign of something terrible to come.

8 years ago

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at a civics event in January in Seattle. Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent about police shootings Monday
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Courts & Law

Police shootings stir outrage among some, but not the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has again stepped into the bitter public turmoil over police shootings of civilians.

8 years ago

Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery in 1965.
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Philly social justice advocates mine lessons from MLK’s legacy

The event, hosted by WHYY and NewCore, is part of a conversation series unfolding across the Philadelphia region since January to mark the 50th anniversary of King's death.

8 years ago

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Demonstrators gather outside the entrance to the Sacramento City Council chambers to protest the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento,
The Philadelphia Experiment
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It appears to be open season on those standing up against racism

Long before Stephon Clark was shot dead by Sacramento police officers, those who dared to protest police mistreatment of African-Americans became targets.

8 years ago

Winnie Mandela, anti-apartheid campaigner and wife of the late Nelson Mandela, attended ANC National Conference in December.
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Community

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, dies at 81

Madikizela-Mandela, a towering anti-apartheid crusader and former wife of the late Nelson Mandela, died Monday in Johannesburg "after a long illness

8 years ago

 Dr. Martin Luther King, third from right, marchers across the Alabama River on the first of a five day, 50 mile march to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., on March 21, 1965.(AP Photo)
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AP-NORC Poll: Blacks think civil rights goals unachieved

Fifty years after the assassination of MLK only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he led.

8 years ago

Protesters hold up signs in a march and rally for slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., on March 31, 2012. (Julie Fletcher/AP)
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Politics & Policy

Trump budget would eliminate DOJ peacemaking office

Justice Department official Lee Loftus told reporters in February the CRS is a "small entity in Justice today."

8 years ago

Santana Outlaw, 17, joined her classmates at Science Leadership Academy Beeber in West Philly on a bus trip to Washington, D.C. Saturday for her first national protest. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
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Young Philly activists endure the ups and downs of their first march on Washington

Saturday’s rally was framed as both a protest against gun violence and a galvanizing moment for teenage activists.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia Eagles' Malcolm Jenkins, (left), speaks, as former NFL player Anquan Boldin, New England Patriots' Devin McCourty, moderator New York Times Magazine's Emily Bazelon, and New Orleans Saints' Demario Davis listen during a session to discuss criminal justice issues with other current and former NFL football players at Harvard Law School, Friday, March 23, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass. (Josh Reynolds/AP Photo)
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Eagles Jenkins, Philly DA Krasner attend Harvard social justice summit

The players participated in small group discussions about policing, prosecutors and sentencing reform.

8 years ago

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