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November 02, 2025

The bill sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday was signed into law in 1983.

Sen. Obama Honored by CBCF

POSTED: November 02, 2008, 12:00 pm

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Senator Barack Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation black tie gala.

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