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"On Sunday, hours before Bernie Sanders took the stage to debate Democratic primary rivals Hillary Clinton and Martin O&amp;apos;Malley, the candidate&amp;#xA0;sat down with Killer Mike, Cornel West and Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner to discuss the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how&amp;#xA0;it dovetails with the message of Sanders&amp;apos; presidential campaign.\r\n\r\nNo one ever &amp;quot;talks about the social justice aspect of Dr. King,&amp;quot; Killer Mike&amp;#xA0;said during the interview, which was livestreamed on&amp;#xA0;Sanders&amp;apos; website. &amp;quot;He was killed for many of the same reasons this man is campaigning for.&amp;quot;\r\nWest and Turner agreed, comparing Sanders&amp;apos; campaign&amp;#xA0;to King&amp;apos;s crusade&amp;#xA0;to end poverty.&amp;#xA0;West recalled sitting in church, reading King&amp;apos;s words. &amp;quot;It just made you shake and quiver and I said to myself, &amp;apos;This is what the Sanders campaign is about....&amp;#xA0;It&amp;apos;s about the poor, working people. It&amp;apos;s about keeping track of the weak and the vulnerable. It&amp;apos;s about mustering the courage to tell the truth about Wall Street, about wealth inequality, about decrepit schools, about the need for a living wage,&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;he said.\r\nOn Monday, the federal holiday honoring King, Sanders traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, to tour&amp;#xA0;the city&amp;apos;s 16th Street Baptist Church, where King often preached and the site, in 1963, of a KKK-orchestrated bombing that killed four young girls. (At the girls&amp;apos; funeral, King called the bombing &amp;quot;one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.&amp;quot;)\r\n&amp;quot;If we are serious about remembering [King&amp;apos;s] legacy, we will continue the fight for racial justice, economic justice and for a nation in which all people live with dignity. We still have a long way to go,&amp;quot; the Vermont senator said.\r\nThat night Sanders addressed voters inside Birmingham&amp;apos;s Boutwell Auditorium and via a jumbotron that was erected for the estimated 1,600 supporters who stood outside in the cold&amp;#xA0;to watch the presidential candidate speak.\r\nSanders invoked King again during&amp;#xA0;his remarks. &amp;quot;To truly honor Dr. King we must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;He saw the relationship between racism and economics and war. That was his courage.&amp;quot;\r\nThe auditorium, AL.com noted, often functions as a warming station for the homeless on such cold nights. Critics were quick to seize on that irony, but&amp;#xA0;the city&amp;apos;s chief homeless advocate tried to diffuse frustrations. &amp;quot;There is no one to be mad at,&amp;quot; Don Lupo, director of the mayor&amp;apos;s office of citizen&amp;apos;s assistance said Monday. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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