MPR News Update for Monday, Jan. 19, 2015
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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King made several visits to Minnesota during his public life, defending nonviolent action in the Civil Rights movement and in Vietnam War protests. Today at noon on MPR News Presents and later on MPRnews.org, hear Vernon Jordan's keynote address at the annual King holiday breakfast at the Minneapolis Convention Center. (Federal holiday: What's opened; what's closed) | Today's weather
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