'There's too much at stake': Rainbow/PUSH calls for educational equity on MLK Day

CHICAGO — A little more than 50 years after Illinois first recognized Martin Luther King’s birthday as a holiday, nearly 1,000 people braved Chicago’s bitter cold Monday to remember the fallen civil rights leader and insist that change is still needed across the nation. Amid a backdrop of the Iowa caucuses where several GOP candidates for president have either called for or peeled back equity ...

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