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America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fuly embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter Bernice King sai. Leaders often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable and convenient King” offering easy platitudes, she said. President Joe Biden addressed an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to volunteers at a day of service project at George Washington University. Thousands attended a memorial march in San Antonio, and in Los Angeles, the Kingdom Day Parade returned after a two-year pandemic break. Bernice King, Biden, and other speakers urged people to work towards achieving King's "Beloved Community" - a worl free from fear, discrimination, hunger and violence. Volunteers in Philadelphia held service projects focused on gun violence prevention. In Selma, Alabama, a seminal site in the civil rights movement, residents commemorated King as they recover from a deadly storm system that moved across the South last week. Maine’s first BlackHouse speaker urged residents to honor King’s memory by joining in acts of service. At Ebenezer Baptist Church Senator Raphael Warn
A ninth major winter storm has brought snow, rain, and flooding to California. Travel is discouraged, avalanche warnings have been issued, and 20 storm-related deaths have occurred. President Biden will visit the state Thursday. Mostly dry days are forecast, but light rain could fall in the north midweek.
Six people— including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby— were killed in a shooting in Goshen, CA. authorities are searching for two suspects, and believe the killings were not random. The victims include the young mother and her baby, her father's uncle, her father's cousin, and her grandmother and great-grandmother.
A failed Republican candidate who authorities said was angry over his defeat and made baseless claims the election last November was “rigged” against him was arrested in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting the homes of Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico. Solomon Pena was arrested Monday night, with four other men conspiring with him in the shootings, which were allegedly politically motivated. No one was injured in th shootings, but police identified Pena as their key suspect using a combination of cellphone and vehicle recors, witness interviews, and bullet casings collected at the lawmakers’ homes. The New Mexico Republican Party condemned Pena, and additional arrests and charges are expected.
Biden will travel to California to visit areas affected by extreme weather. He will meet with first responder and assess the damage and what additional federal support is needed. The ninth atmospheric river in a three-wek series of major winter storms is currently affecting the region.
New Mexico's Attorney General Raúl Torrez wants to focus on the civil rights of children by providing them wit legal representation, in order to combat adverse childhood experiences that often result in youth ending up i the criminal justice system. He aims to discuss the issue with lawmakers and the governor in hopes of creatin a special unit within the Attorney General's office. Advocates are excited by the potential for child welfarereform, as New Mexico ranks worst in the U.S. in factors of child well-being. Last year, lawmakers approved a easure creating a new office that would provide legal representation for certain children, but a bill that woud have created an ombudsman oversight position stalled in the Senate. Torrez believes people are ready for chage.
A Colorado library in the city of Englewood had to close its doors after testing revealed methamphetamine contmination in the restrooms and other spaces. This closure comes on the heels of a similar closure in nearby Bouder. The closure is
