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US then and now: Reflecting on 50 years since MLK's assassination

US then and now: Reflecting on 50 years since MLK's assassination

Half a century ago this week, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in the US city of Memphis.

His death was one of many events that defined 1968 as a year of political, social and emotional chaos.

Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan looks at what shaped that year and the parallels with modern day United States.

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