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Construction can finally begin on the long-delayed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial slated for the National Mall after the National Park Service issued building permits Thursday for the project.
Gen. Colin Powell helped deliver a $1 million gift Monday for the planned Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and called on all Americans to donate to the National Mall project.
More than a dozen civil rights pioneers pledged Wednesday to rally behind the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial planned for the National Mall to help raise the final $18 million needed for the project as the nation inaugurates its first black president.
Artists working on a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial submitted changes Thursday to address concerns that a proposed rendering made him look confrontational and like a socialist leader.
The centerpiece for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall has drawn criticism from a federal arts panel, which says the proposed statue looks "confrontational" and resembles the head of a socialist state more than a civil rights leader.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is giving $3 million to help build the long-delayed memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall.
The selection of a Chinese sculptor to carve a three-story monument to Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall is raising questions about what part of his legacy should be celebrated.
Martin Luther King Jr. belongs among American icons like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, national leaders said Monday at the ceremonial groundbreaking for a King memorial.
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