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The Controversy Over the Martin Luther King Jr. Planned for the National Mall

Others have read another concern into the commission's comments: the sculptor selected for the job, Lei Yixin, is Chinese, and the sculpture is being made in China of buff-colored stone. (The executive architect for the memorial, Ed Jackson Jr., said granite of that hue and quantity was not available elsewhere.) This "outsourcing," as critics have called it, has spawned an angry Web site, www.kingisours.com, and an investigation by the inspector general of the Interior Department.

King County's new face is MLK

King County Executive Ron Sims and former King County Councilman Bruce Laing, who were instrumental in the county's ceremonially renaming itself after King in 1986, also took the podium. It took nearly two decades for the state to make the change official.

King daughter pays honors parents

Today is Martin Luther King day, a national holiday that many Republicans opposed creating. If you get a chance today, listen to MLK's speeches on Vietnam. You can replace every word with Iraq and they will ring as true. The man was a visionary and a hero. Our country is still broken apart as a result of his journey being interrupted by his killing

Work begins on Martin Luther King memorial

I'm sure I'm not the only one offended by President Bush appearing at the MLK memorial. Bush has done a lot to ignore and hurt African Americans in this country in six years. Hurricane Katrina anyone?

Young resigns from Wal-Mart committee amid criticism of remarks

"Well, I think they should; they ran the `mom and pop' stores out of my neighborhood," the paper quoted Young as saying. "But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us, selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own these stores."

Thousands bid farewell to Coretta Scott King

The end of an era. Very sad.

Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, dies at 78

It's the end of an era.

Siblings Split on Selling King Center

AP - Two children of Martin Luther King Jr. said Friday they will fight any sale of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change to the National Park Service, pitting them against their two younger siblings.