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The fight for voting rights continues…

Fifty-seven years ago Martin Luther King's campaign for voting rights began, and his work still resonates in communities across this country - a new century but an old fight that is yet to be settled. Last weekend, in freezing temperatures here in New Jersey, members of the People's Organization for Progress (POP), elected officials and many Newark area residents, gathered for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. march to remember and affirm the struggle for racial justice, with an acute lens on voting rights, and issue that was at the forefront of King’s activism.

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