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Martin Luther King III, center, the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., with his wife Arndrea, second from right and daughter Yolanda, bottom center, observe King’s 83rd birthday anniversary. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

Martin Luther King Jr. aimed to alter balance of power

A group of activists takes to the streets, demanding that the American government help the poor to stay afloat. Occupy Wall Street? No, the Poor People’s Campaign, created by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Denver Post

Gil Scott-Heron: ‘The Last Holiday’

Guardian

Remembering MLK at his home church

CNN

The GOP race: Will the real Ronald Reagan please stand up?

It‘s no secret who the most popular Republican is in this year’s GOP presidential race. In just one single debate last year, GOP candidates mentioned the former President Ronald Reagan 24 times.

NPR

Jon Huntsman to drop out of presidential race

CNN

Search of Italian cruise ship resumes, hopes fade

Rescuers resumed a search of the hulk of a giant cruise liner off the west coast of Italy after bad weather forced them to halt operations, but hopes were fading of finding more survivors.

Reuters

Man from San Antonio survives disaster

Houston Chronicle

Cruise captain arrested as death toll reaches 5

Bloomberg

Pakistan Taliban leader believed dead: intelligence officials

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike, Pakistan intelligence officials report.

Reuters

UN says that Somali famine ‘will kill 10s of thousands’

The U.N. in Somalia says that tens of thousands of people will have died of starvation by the time the famine in the Horn of Africa ends.

BBC

Special section:

Somali speaks

Al Jazeera

Markets are calm — maybe too calm

After wild price swings that left investors bewildered and not a cent richer last year, stocks are rising again.

CNBC

NATION

Tanker carrying fuel arrives at iced-in Alaska town

Crews are laying the “icework” for the final leg of a Russian tanker’s mission to deliver fuel to the Alaskan town of Nome, building a path over a half-mile of Bering Sea ice to lay a hose for the fuel transfer.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown plans $1 billion in prison cuts

California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to cut state prison spending for the first time in nearly a decade, a departure from the goals of recent administrations that consistently increased corrections spending.

San Francisco Chronicle

In SC, old racial tensions resurface

The state that fired the first shot in the Civil War is once again battling the government in a racially charged standoff over a new state law that would require photo IDs before voting.

Reuters

POLITICS

Briefs filed in ‘Affordable Care Act’ Supreme Court case

The 26 states opposing healthcare reform filed a Supreme Court brief calling the Medicaid expansion provision “coercive.” But 11 states, D.C. and the Virgin Islands filed a response in support of the law.

MedPage Today

Review:

Rollout of federal health care law

Virginian-Pilot

Settling scores

Arlen Specter, who is turning 82, played a significant role in the American politics of a past generation. His new memoir decries “intolerance and political correctness” in D.C., settling a few old scores.

Philadelphia Inquirer

BUSINESS

Car lovers impressed with Detroit auto show, upbeat about industry

On the first public day of the show, the mood was electric after months of good auto industry news. Attendance was the highest opening in five years.

Detroit Free Press

Special section:

Cars exhibited at auto show

CARandDRIVER.com

Funding from strangers could be an online path for small businesses

San Francisco Chronicle

Diesel thirst fueling exports, pressuring prices at the pump

You don’t need to be able to find the Strait of Hormuz on a map to know the global nature of the oil market, or that prices at the pump swing wildly on uprisings in countries such as Iran or Libya.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

EDUCATION

Pre-K winners for Race to the Top contest: Will they spur broader reform?

Education officials hope the Race to the Top–Early Learning Challenge will spark widespread reform of programs that serve the youngest children.

Christian Science Monitor

This so-called ‘middle school life’

Teachers in Virginia collected podcasts from children’s point of view on surviving middle school, resulting in frank testimonials.

Virginian-Pilot

HEALTH

New, noninvasive way to identify lymph node metastasis

Researchers have developed targeted, fluorescent molecular imaging probes that can non-invasively detect breast cancer lymph node metastases.

Medical News Today

Do your pushups, Mr. President

As the longtime personal trainer for President Barack Obama and the first family, Cornell McClellan, the nation’s “first trainer,” also spends much time getting children excited about physical fitness.

The Telegraph

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Black church set ablaze on night of Obama’s election reopens

Macedonia Church of God in Christ was founded by Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr.’s father in 1950. When arson targeted the predominantly African American congregation, he knew they would rebuild.

(CNN)

Belief Blog

More US Catholics take complaints to church court

In recent years, clergy and lay people in the United States have increasingly turned to the church‘s internal legal system to challenge a bishop’s or pastor’s decision.

Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

Ravens ride defense past Texans, toward meeting with Pats in AFC title game

If style points and offensive fireworks meant anything, the Ravens wouldn’t stand a chance of making it to the AFC Championship Game.

NFL.com

Eli Manning leads as Giants oust top-seeded Packers

With their own star quarterback and a dominating defense, the New York Giants exposed the Green Bay Packers for what they now are — former Super Bowl champions.

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Donna Flagg):

Life online: Has push back against social media begun?

(Psychology Today)

Office Diaries

Column (Debbie Attterberry):

King’s dream not realized in Minnesota

Star Tribune

Column (Lewis Diuguid):

A day to ask: Would that America be our America?

Kansas City Star

Editorial:

The cost of Syria’s crackdown

Al Jazeera

Blog (Fareed Zakaria):

Why oil prices will continue to stay high

(CNN)

Global Public Square

Column (Richard Sennett):

The science of getting along: teaching children cooperation

Salon

Column (Lewis W. Diuguid):

We must help returning troops forge a future

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Harold Jackson):

Recalling a school closing that opened a new world

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Small animals get a 2nd chance at Jacksonville wildlife sanctuary

The trapper who brought the animal to the Wildlife Rescue Coalition of Northeast Florida’s sanctuary on the Westside had no idea what it was and no one there could tell him.

Florida Times-Union

Boxing great Muhammad Ali gets 70th birthday bash

At 70, Muhammad Ali is “still the greatest” to friends and admirers worldwide. The champ basked in chants of “Ali! Ali!” as hundreds of supporters cheered “Happy Birthday” in his Kentucky hometown.

News-Sentinel

Ali at 70 is still the star of the show

Sydney Morning Herald

Pa. students turn wood from an old bridge into new furniture

When the Pine Valley Covered Bridge in central Bucks County, Pa., was refurbished last year, the discarded timbers would have ended up as kindling were it not for John Cressman’s ingenuity.

Philadelphia Inquirer