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    On Monday morning in Washington, D.C., members of the King family led hundreds of demonstrators on a march across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. The group continued their two-mile Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk through the city, until reaching Union Station where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other lawmakers spoke during a press conference.
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