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    Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.'s fight for health care equity must continue

    by Brian Williams and Michael W. Waters, Chicago Tribune Jan 17, 2020 3 minutes

    America celebrates a distortion of Martin Luther King Jr., void of his prophetic call to justice by any nonviolent means necessary. Particularly around the annual remembrance of his life Monday, watch for his words to be repackaged in tasty sound bites and stripped of the so-called extremism that prompted FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to label him "the most dangerous man in America."

    Chicago was a seminal backdrop for King's work toward justice and the place where he sounded his call for health

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