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How to Celebrate the Dr. King Holiday - The Atlanta Inquirer

How to Celebrate the Dr. King Holiday The angst and anxiety that so many people have been feeling the past several months is understandable. From an unrelenting pandemic that has taken so many lives, to the plague of social injustice that continues to challenge the lives of Black people in the United States, it has been a difficult time in America. How fitting it is, then, that the first major holiday of the year that we celebrate is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr holiday. At a time when we…

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