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President-elect Donald Trump, who spent the weekend engaged in a war of words with civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), met Monday with Martin Luther King III to discuss voting rights. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s eldest son walked into Trump Tower at 12:51 p.m. with a handful of colleagues affiliated with the Drum Major Institute, a progressive public policy think tank where he is president. “Today, President-elect Trump is going to sit down with Martin Luther King III and others in New York and have a conversation about voting, about bringing more people into the...

Here's a case of the fruit falling and rolling a long way from the tree. Last Saturday, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King III spoke. He echoed his father's words from fifty years ago about people not being judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. In the words of MLK III: "The task is not done, the journey is not complete," he said. "The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where...

From the red acarpet of Hollywood to the streets of downtown DC, the words "post-racial Anmerica" are being uttered. But are troubled race relations really a thing of the past in the US? Barack Obama led his campaign as if a post-racial era had already arrived, seldom speaking of race until the Reverend Wright scandal broke - his own pastor was revealed making anti-white and anti-American statements. This pushed the candidate to address the issue head-on, saying, "I have brothers, sisters, neices, nephews, uncles and cousins of every race, and every hue... Scattered across three continents. And for as long...

"I'm not sure that we will ever abolish terrorism by, sort of, becoming terrorists ourselves," he said. "You can't force people to do things."