What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th birthday? America is a far different place from the nation that saw King ...

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Roughly one in five Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through ...