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How MLK Jr Blvd came to have its name, the evolution of protest movements, what's the future of DACA?
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Jan 15, 2018
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How MLK Jr Blvd came to have its name, the evolution of protest movements, what's the future of DACA?

From Santa Barbara Ave to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, how protest movements today evolved from Dr. King's work, plus, is DACA dead?

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From Santa Barbara Ave to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, how protest movements today evolved from Dr. King's work, plus, is DACA dead?

Martin Luther King Jr. told the UCLA crowd on April 27, 1965, that civil rights still had "a long, long way" to go.
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There is less focus on the perfect representative of blackness to participate in black activism, says one Cal State LA Pan-African Studies professor.
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It's hard to make sense of any tragedy — especially the deadly mudslide in Montecito. But this weekend, that task fell to a handful of local faith leaders.
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It was once named Santa Barbara Ave. But Celes King III saw an opportunity to rename it ahead of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
A new focus on gender and pay inequality in the entertainment industry involving Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams has earned the spotlight.
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Gianna and Dee Kerrison collect the work of African Americans and other artists of color that tell a story.