At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...
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Commentary: The power of just not buying itOn Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to ...
Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...
Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.
The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill ...
Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...
SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in ... Maxine Waters, D-California; civil rights activist Al Sharpton; civil rights ...
Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...
Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), will travel to Selma, Alabama Sunday to mark the ...
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