Beckles, Fauci to get Martin Luther King Awards

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Beckles, Fauci to get Martin Luther King Awards

REVEREND AL Sharpton, president and founder of the US National Action Network (NAN), has announced that the organisation’s Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day Awards will be conferred on Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and Dr Anthony Fauci at the annual...

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