{"id":35398,"date":"2018-04-04T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/04\/martin-luther-king-events-to-be-held-across-us-to-remember-leader-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:58:59","slug":"martin-luther-king-events-to-be-held-across-us-to-remember-leader-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=35398","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King: events to be held across US to remember leader \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian journalists report live from events to mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader\u2019s death, held to remember his message of equality\u2018I Have A Dream\u2019: students from King\u2019s former school recite speechWhat would King\u2019s dream be in 2018?King\u2019s last 31 hours: the story of his final prophetic speechHow a rebel leader was lost to history 2.50pm BST The White House on Tuesday issued a proclamation to mark the 50th anniversary of King\u2019s assassination. Though he was taken from this earth unjustly, he left us with his legacy of justice and peace. In remembrance of his profound and inspirational virtues, we look to do as Dr King did while this world was privileged enough to still have him. We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters lest we perish together as fools. We must embrace the sanctity of life and love our neighbor as we love ourselves. As a united people, we must see Dr King\u2019s life mission through and denounce racism, inhumanity, and all those things that seek to divide us. 2.41pm BST To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s death, the Guardian asked nine students from his former school in Atlanta &#8211; Booker T Washington high school &#8211; to recite the I Have A Dream speech. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2018\/apr\/04\/martin-luther-king-events-to-be-held-across-us-to-remember-leader-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King: events to be held across US to remember leader \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian journalists report live from events to mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader\u2019s death, held to remember his message of equality\u2018I Have A Dream\u2019: students from King\u2019s former school recite speechWhat would King\u2019s dream be in 2018?King\u2019s last 31 hours: the story of his final prophetic speechHow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}