Sentences with phrase «national holiday honoring»

A few days after the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King and the city is bristling with indignant stories about the obvious absence of black nominees for the Academy Awards.

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Marshall Frady and others are right: If everything was known then that is known now, Dr. King would early have been brought to public ruin, and there would almost certainly be no national holiday in his honor.

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While in the House, Garcia earned attention by sponsoring a bill to establish a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr..

Veterans Day is a national holiday intended to be a celebration to honor America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.

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With all this in mind, I recently asked my Latin American History students to debate whether we should celebrate a national holiday in honor of Christopher Columbus — the man most responsible for starting the trans - Atlantic slave trade, an indigenous holocaust, and a legacy of cultural destruction.

To sustain engagement, I mentioned that Martin Luther King Jr., who paid the ultimate sacrifice for speaking out peacefully against hate and racial division, is the only historical figure other than Columbus honored with a national holiday in his name.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter became the first president to honor the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, by lighting a National Menorah.

Wikipedia says: «Siblings Day (sometimes called National Siblings Day or National Sibling Day) is a holiday recognized annually in some parts of the United States on April 10, honoring the relationships of siblings.