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Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark relief
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Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark relief

Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and movies postponed. But the virus hasn’t stopped Bob Dylan, who, on the evening of March 26, released “Murder Most Foul,” a 17-minute long song about the Kennedy assassination. Many have pondered the timing. So have I. I’m a Kennedy scholar writing a book about how television handled coverage of the Kennedy assassination over a traumatic four-day “black weekend,” as it was called. I’ve also explored how Americans responded to the sudden upending of national life with the murder of a popular and uniquely telegenic president. NBC News anchor David Brinkley, as he signed off that first night, called Kennedy’s death “just too much, too ugly and too fast.” The corona...
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What progress has Black America made since MLK’s assassination?
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What progress has Black America made since MLK’s assassination?

Fifty years after the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, the world reflects on his life and legacy. This week, the world has been honouring the memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King had a dream to live in a society where people were judged by their character rather than the colour of their skin. But that dream was shattered by an assassin's bullet on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was 39 years old. Five decades later, on the anniversary of his death, people across the US and the world paused to remember what happened and what King stood for. How much progress have black Americans made in the struggle to achieve racial and economic equality? Presenter: Dareen AbuGhaida Guests: Reverend Bernar...
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A look at the riots following MLK’s assassination
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A look at the riots following MLK’s assassination

Al Jazeera met a couple who witnessed the violence in Washington, DC, after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968. Racial segregation in public places in the United States legally ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But many African Americans were still forced to live and work in second-class conditions. The simmering anger led to widespread riots after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968.   Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan met a couple who witnessed the violence in Washington, DC.
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