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Tue, 17/01/2023 - 09:30
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Tue, 17/01/2023 - 09:30
The new generation of Villagers take their seats at the table Here’s how the super insider Punchbowl is reporting the news today: Happy Monday morning. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’re only publishing the AM edition. We’ll be back to the regular schedule tomorrow. President Joe Biden’s split screen on Sunday was stark. Biden spoke at a memorial service for the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The high-profile speech came at the invitation of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), the senior pastor there. On what would’ve been MLK’s 94th birthday, and from King’s own pulpit, Biden warned that the United States is at an “inflection point,” with the future of democracy in peril. “We’re at what we would call an inflection point. One of those points in world history where what happens … in the next six or eight years is going to determine what the world looks like for the next 30 or 40 years. It happened after World War II. It’s happening again.” More Biden: “My message to this nation on this day is we go forward, we go together, when we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers and the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the faith.” While Biden overuses the “inflection point” line, the issues of voting rights and ballot access remain big ones for Black voters, a critical group for the president if he runs again in 2024 — especially in Georgia. Meanwhile, back…