A Time magazine article reveals new details about the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr'.'s famous speech.
Tell them about the dream Martin,, Tell them about the dream ...
Posted Saturday, August 24th 2013 at 5:38PM
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/22/living/march-on-washington-freed-photos/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
It was his most famous speech, and the most memorable moment of the March on Washington.
All eyes were on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on August ...
Posted Saturday, August 24th 2013 at 5:34PM
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Over the next week, a host of civil rights events will be taking place in Washington, D.C., leading up to the 50th anniversary next week of the March on Washington.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/20/john-lewis-march
More than a quarter million ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 8:27PM
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Fifty years ago this summer, Dr. King lead the March on Washington, where he gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. Today, it's everyday Americans that are working to help advance the dream. How are you ADVANCING THE DREAM? Tell us! Use #advanci ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 8:10PM
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Joyce and Dorie Ladner served on the front lines of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, showing up in “hot spots’’ across Mississippi to protest segregation and register blacks to vote.
Joyce Ladner stepped inside a whites-only church in Jacks ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:42PM
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Gabrielle Union will be at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington on Saturday but don’t expect to see boyfriend Dwyane Wade there with her. She told the Tom Joyner Morning Show that Wade and his two sons, Zaire and Zion are on their annual “ ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:38PM
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National Urban League and Memorial Foundation Jointly Host
"Drum Majors for Justice Celebration" on Friday, August 23rd, 2013
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington DC
The National Urban League and the Memorial Foundation together will host The Dr ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:31PM
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Decades before delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would represent her district as a congresswoman on Capitol Hill, she worked as one of the original organizers for the March on Washington. Fifty years later, Holmes Norton reflects with Gwen Ifill on her ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:24PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Months before Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I Have a Dream" to galvanize a crowd of thousands, Bayard Rustin was planning all the essential details to make the 1963 March on Washington a success
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Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:19PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Numerous exhibits and programs in the nation's capital will allow visitors to retrace the historic steps of the 1963 March on Washington 50 years later
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Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:16PM
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at the White House in Washington, DC, July 18, 2011, after an education roundtable with business leaders and US President Barack Obama. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Secretary of State ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 7:11PM
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Wednesday, August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a touchstone of the American Civil Rights Movement. The march, which had religious leaders, labor organizers and celebrities joining a sea of demonstr ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 6:53PM
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AFRICANGLOBE – The global north is unable to feed itself. This explains the “land acquisition” (sounds better than land grab) for food crops in Africa. The UN body, the ‘Food and Agricultural Organisation’ (FAO) published a report on this trend in De ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 5:49PM
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THATS GOOD KAMISHA, ITS A SCIENTIFIC FACT, DONE BY (GOOD WHITE FOLKS) THAT BLACK GENES ARE DOMINANT, AND WHITE GENES ARE RECESSIVE. SO SHE'S NOT RACIST. I LIKE TO CALL IT FACTS, THE TRUTH, THE OPPOSITE OF A LIE, NOT A THEORY NOT A CONSPIRACY, BUT THE ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:33PM
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Well Deserved Recognition!
President Barack Obama called Antoinette Tuff, the woman who talked down an armed 20-year-old who entered & threatened to shoot up an Atlanta-area elementary school with an AK 47. In a recent interview he said "Here is s ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:22PM
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The White entertainment industry is the main tool used to negatively characterize Black people, most of this industry is Jewish-owned
AFRICANGLOBE – African American Lewis Latimer invented the filament for the light bulb that illuminates our hom ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:18PM
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What did the march on Washington really achieved?
African Americans are increasingly pessimistic that progress is being made toward achieving the vision of racial equality outlined by Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago, according to a survey rele ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 4:14PM
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Robin Thicke "Got to Give it up" and MORE than 6 figures
Marvin Gayes family rejected a six figure offer in an attempt to stop an infringement court showdown this fall. Well it seems like the Song of the Summer will be the Big Court Case of the Fa ...
Posted Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 3:51PM
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When a Bloomberg television host opened her segment with Spike Lee on his Kickstarter campaign, saying that the famed directed was under fire over his financing approach, he didn’t take it too well.
Trish Regan of “Street Smart” started off the segm ...
Posted Thursday, August 22nd 2013 at 3:16AM
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