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As communities across the country on Monday hosted parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day<\/a>, the political climate for some is more fraught with tensions than festive with reflection on the slain Black American civil rights icon’s legacy.<\/p>\n

In the year since Donald Trump’s second inauguration fell on King Day, the Republican president has adopted a scorched earth stance against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and targeted mostly Black-led cities<\/a> for federal law enforcement operations, among other policies that many King admirers have criticized.<\/p>\n

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