N.Y. leaders invoke MLK, warn of a civil rights backslide

On what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 97th birthday and the 40th anniversary of MLK Day as a federal holiday, people packed Riverside Church in Morningside Heights.

It’s a place deeply tied to his legacy.

Dr. King spoke there exactly one year before he was assassinated, warning about poverty, racism and militarism…

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