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When Lionel Richie’s parents stopped him from marching with Martin Luther King Jr.

When Lionel Richie’s parents stopped him from marching with Martin Luther King Jr.

Growing up in the segregated South in the 1950s and 1960s, Lionel Richie longed to be part of the civil rights movement of the time, but his parents didn’t allow him to. While promoting his new memoir, Truly, recently, the singer, who grew up in Tuskegee, less than 40 miles outside Montgomery, Ala., recalled how…

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