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GETTY IMAGES: Martin Luther King Jr.’s heirs have agreed to end their legal fight over who owns the slain civil rights leader’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal, according to a court document filed on Monday, but did not disclose if the item will be sold. A trial to settle the years-long dispute over the medal […]

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Nobel Peace Prize winnerArchbishop Desmond Tutu has been hospitalized again, this time for an “inflammation,” his daughter said. The 83-year-old, who has wrestled with health problems for years, was admitted Monday evening and is expected to remain there for at least 24 hours. Tutu’s daughter, Canon Mpho Tutu, didn’t elaborate on the kind of inflammation […]

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“I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice.” Fifty years ago, on December 10, 1964, my father, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke these words on a stage in […]

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  Calling the latest battle over the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s possessions a “spiritually violent” moment in her family’s history, the civil rights icon’s sole surviving daughter said Thursday she already had won the “moral high ground,” regardless of a court’s decision. At issue are her father’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and traveling Bible, […]

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  The ultimate fate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s personal Bible and his Noble Peace Prize is still up in the air. But Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney made it clear today, that Bernice King must turn them over to the King Estate and they won’t be sold in the immediate future. “The peace […]

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On January 20, as we observed my father’s 85th birthday and The King Holiday, my brothers, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King, III, notified me that they want to sell to a private buyer our father’s most prized possessions, his Nobel Peace Prize Medal and his personal Bible which was used by President Barak Obama as he was […]

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  About 100,000 people were expected at the 27th annual MLK March on Monday in San Antonio. The event honors the winner of the1964 Nobel Peace Prize, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose fight for racial equality continues even today. The march began at 10 a.m. Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr. […]

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The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize vowed Friday to work even harder to make the world see women not just as victims of conflicts, but as leaders in efforts to resolve them. Speaking in Oslo a day before the prize ceremony, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, her compatriot Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of […]

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is divided between three women, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, the Nobel committee in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, announced Friday. The women were awarded the prize “for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation […]

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is divided between three women, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, the Nobel committee in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, announced Friday. The women were awarded the prize “for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation […]