Digitized archives and DNA testing prove what these Latinos suspected: Family histories that focused on white, Spanish ancestry include African roots and the legacy of slavery.
Darryl George has asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order that would prevent district officials from further punishing him for not cutting his hair.
The proposal by itself wouldn't have been able to take full effect because lawmakers blocked another bill to create a reparations agency that would have reviewed claims.
The leader of the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed the criminal charges over false claims the former president and his running mate made about Haitian immigrants' eating local pets.
"What we need to do is help people to understand what King stood for, and that was to unify people and to bring people together in the spirit of love," one pastor said.