NOTE: This date’s entries are fewer and shorter than usual — but not because of a snoozy summer, which this one is anything but. My apologies for visitors who like entries longer and earlier. Scroll further down for links to an assortment of other news and commentary sources. 

For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. (There is no previous KING entry.  UKRAINE, GAZA and MEDIA and entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Things to know about the release of federal documents related to MLK’s assassination, by Adrian Sainz | AP  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal records related to the investigation into the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released, following the disclosure in March of tens of thousands of documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. READ MORE . . .

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Trump administration releases files on Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Reported by Steve Inskeep and Elena Moore | NPR  Two segments: Academic, author, pastor and radio host Michael Eric Dyson is interviewed following the National Archives’ publication of newly digitized documents relating to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — as part of a directive by President Trump. Click HERE to listen to interview and HERE to read another report.

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