African-American – News January 15, 2012

Museum program honors – spirit’ of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Mt. Airy News)
LaDonna McCarther and Cheryl Yellow Fawn Scott serve as co-directors for “In the Spirit of Dr.
Newt Gingrich defends his views before unlikely audience (Philadelphia’s WB 17)
Regina Williams of Columbia, S.C., asks Newt Gingrich a few questions during a town-hall meeting at Jones Memorial AME Zion Church.

Civil Rights activists denounce ‘Monsters against Madonna’ web campaign (Examiner)
Civil rights activists as well as students all over the city gathered at Chicago’s Martin Luther King Jr.

Metro Birmingham residents participate in walk at Railroad Park to honor Martin Luther King Jr. (Alabama Live)
Walkers participate in the annual Metro Birmingham Diversity Coalition Unity Walk celebrating Dr.

South Carolina, Martin Luther King, Black America’s Invisibility (Kansas City InfoZine)
“There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America.” Washington, D.C. – infoZine – Based in South Carolina, Kevin Gray is an activist and author of ” The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama .” Gray said today: “There has … (more)

Newton Mayor Setti Warren speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Ceremony in Springfield (MassLive)
The state’s first elected black mayor urged residents to celebrate the progress made possible by the Rev.