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The Importance of the Message

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published March 5, 2022 at 6:43 AM CST

Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who had a "tremendous amount of burdens he had to deal with, both politically, socially and personally," says <em>MLK/FBI</em> director Sam Pollard. — The Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior

The Arkansas Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior Commission spent the weekend in Alabama, touring different civil rights and participating in the “Bloody Sunday” march across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. KASU’s Johnathan Reaves joined the commission on the trip and files the first in a series of reports. Click on the Listen button for the entire story.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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