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- In 1946, a teenaged Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote what is thought to be his only letter to the editors of the Atlanta Constitution.
- At yesterday’s MLK Day service, Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Senior Pastor Rev. Raphael Warnock called on the president to “repent” his “volcanic eruption of hate speech spewing out of the mouth.”
- At next month’s Girl Scout Day at the Capitol, more than 300 scouts from across Georgia intend to urge the Legislature to consider renaming the Talmadge Bridge for Juliette Gordon Low.
- Rep. Richard Smith (R-Columbus) sponsored a new bill to address “surprise” medical billing.
- Royal Dutch Shell, which helped make the Middle East an oil behemoth, is gradually pulling out of the region.
- How North Carolina’s gerrymandered Congressional map “muted” the state’s urban areas.
- Carrier employees who are about to be laid off feel “betrayed” by Trump.
- This year’s flu season is bad. Get your shot! And other ways to defend yourself against the potentially deadly virus.
- America was a “fractured” society in 1968. Here’s what push news alerts might have looked like if we’d had smartphones 50 years ago.