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Make MLK’s Teachings Part of School Curriculum
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
21 Jan 2019
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Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, based in Newark, New Jersey. Young people should know that Dr King was a radical, a socialist, but are instead fed a sanitized version of the civil rights leaders life’s work, through media filters.

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