Hello LMC, this is a very special newspaper. It's the Martin Luther King Edition. So as you all know, Martin Luther King Day is on the 18th. So we had to do something about that. Everything you see here will be Martin Luther King Edition Only. There is no Advice Column or Recipes this time around. There are also no short stories. Sorry. But this will be a good newspaper nonetheless. Also if you haven’t yet, go check out our website:
Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspiring activist in making things better. He is most known for his speech,
“I have a dream.” King was a big supporter of peaceful protest.
In 1968, King was assassinated. According to a study in 1965, two out of three people didn’t like King, but in a study from 1970, four out of six people liked King's work. Now, take a moment to think, what would the BLM protests look like if King was there? Would there have been more acknowledgement? Who knows?
That’s it for this section
Above: Martin Luther King Jr, 1964. Credit: Wikipedia
House Votes to Impeach Trump
On Wednesday the 13th, the House voted to impeach President Trump for an unprecedented (never done or known before) second time, alleging (claim or assert that someone has done something illegal or wrong) that Trump encouraged a mob to storm Congress as part of a last effort to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s election win.
The vote was 232 to 197, with all Democrats (222 democratic seats) joined by 10 Republicans. Democrats’ pushing to impeach Mr. Trump just before he is set to leave office reflects many lawmakers’ deep anger at Mr. Trump’s monthslong campaign to challenge the results of the election, making false claims about election fraud and trying to twist the arms of state officials as well as Vice President Mike Pence to stay in power, culminating (to bring to a head or to the highest point) in his supporters' violent actions.
“We know that the president of the United States incited (encouraged or stirred up) this insurrection (a violent uprising against an authority or government), this armed rebellion against our country,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “He must go—he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.” There you have it, the president of our country has now been impeached twice, something that has never been done before in the history of our nation.
