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At the time of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr’s death in 1968, his voice was everywhere. The Civil Rights Movement in America moved to the pulse of his cadences. Among the many laments after King’s assassination was the poignant realisation that ...

Fifty years have gone by so quickly, and while it is appropriate to celebrate the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, certain not-so-celebratory realisations need to be acknowledged also. The 1960s were a high period of transformation in the ...

The assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr occurred eight years before I was born, but in Memphis, it has never quite seemed like the past. It is so deeply imprinted on the city’s collective psyche that it hovers somewhere above the pres...

Hundreds of people attended a commemoration of the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of the peace activist’s murder. Glenn Fubler, who helped organise the tribute at City Hall, said it was an occasion t...

News broadcasts that the civil rights leader the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, reached Bermuda on the evening of April 4, 1968. Among the people who heard of Dr King’s death was local activist Florenz Max...

The determination of the Reverend Martin Luther King in his vision for a better world stands as a monumental example of the power of dreams. For Carika Weldon, a biochemist and researcher at De Montfort University in England, Dr King’s legacy is an e...

Bermudians mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr today with a celebration of his life, starting at 12.30pm on the steps of City Hall. Local activist Glenn Fubler, organiser of the event, recalled hearing of Dr King a...

Fifty years ago this week, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr gave one of the best-known, yet mostly unheard speeches in American history — his Mountaintop speech. He spoke for more than 40 minutes, but only his concluding lines, about looking off in...

Businessman Michael Leverock was a schoolboy at the time of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, who was murdered 50 years ago tomorrow. Mr Leverock said: “I grew up in the Sixties, in his time and his era — it was taught to me as a child. “I a...

The life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who died 50 years ago, is to be celebrated tomorrow with a commemoration of the power of dreams. Glenn Fubler of Imagine Bermuda said Dr King’s vision of social justice left a legacy that was “...

Leah Scott, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, issued a statement ahead of the 50th anniversary tomorrow of the death of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. While Dr King would always be remembered for his “I have a Dream” speech at the March on Wa...

An employee won the right to their personnel records after an investigation by information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez. The employee had made a request under Public Access to Information to see their records after they were referred to counselli...