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Marchers Push for Immigrant Reform in Yakima

Lance Tormey — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:31 +0000

The National push for immigration reform takes center stage in Yakima this week.

The annual May Day March is set for Wednesday as the US Senate considers an immigration reform bill. The Yakima march starts at 6:00 p

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Public Breakfast Gathering Before Presidental Inauguration and MKL March

Lance Tormey — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:46:59 +0000

In an event open to the public, the Yakima County Democrats will hold a Presidential Inauguration Celebration Breakfast in Yakima's Howard Johnson Plaza from 8 to 11 a.m. this morning.

"I want to emphasize that this will be a public gathering, not a party fundraiser," said new Yakima county Democratic Party chair Dany Adolf

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MLK Jr. Honored At Heritage Unversity

KIT — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:54:57 +0000

Heritage University faculty, staff and students are honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a celebration on Tuesday, January 31 on the Toppenish campus.

The event will feature a reading of the I Have a Dream speech, songs from the civil rights movement and a keynote address by Thelma Jackson, owner and principal consultant of Foresight Consultants and founder of The Northwest Institute for Leadership and Change. Jackson

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Yakima Celebrate MLK Jr. Day

tamarabartley — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:29:06 +0000

More than one-thousand people were in downtown Yakima Monday to celebrate the life of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior...Monday was a national holiday....marchers walked down Martin Luther King, Jr. boulevard waving flags and carrying signs

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5 Things You Didn't Know About Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Danny Gallagher — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:08:39 +0000

Chip Somodevilla, Getty Giving a day of commemoration to one of the world's most instrumental civil rights leaders whose peaceful words and deeds contributed to a whole new understanding of equality and brotherhood seems like a no-brainer. Martin Luther King Day's history, however, was fraught with controversy and took years just to get on the [...]

28th Annual Peace March This Monday to Honor MLK Jr.

tamarabartley — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:22:46 +0000

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and in Yakima the annual Peace March in downtown is set to start at noon. It's the 28th annual march in Yakima to honor the former civil rights leader. The march starts at N

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Debuts on the National Mall [VIDEO]

Jade Walker — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:40:16 +0000

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C., has officially opened to the public. The memorial will be formally dedicated on Aug. 28 — the anniversary of his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech — and will cap a five-day celebration that could draw as many as 250,000 people.

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