Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there. It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside ...

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We keep drinking poison in the hope that it will kill the enemies of those Muslims who have never cared about us ...

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Since Zohran Mamdani’s surprising Democratic mayoral primary upset last week, New York Jewish leaders’ uneasiness with the ...