Americans Pay Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on 50th Anniversary of Assassination

“Though he was taken from this Earth unjustly, he left us with his legacy of justice and peace,” U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 50 years ago Wednesday at a public appearance in Memphis, Tennessee. “President Abraham Lincoln sought to eradicate the senseless divisions of racial hierarchies when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation,” Trump continued in a video released Wednesday. “Just over 100 years later,...

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