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Happy Pride Month: Power and Pride to The People!

Happy Pride month to Black LGBTQ readers and to all of us who love LGBTQ people! June has become the traditional month for Pride ...

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BAYARD RUSTIN SPEECH: “NEGRO REVOLUTION IN 1965”

[Celebrating Black History Month\Bayard Rustin] “The Negro movement is, in fact, revolutionary, in not its objective but its method and its demand. And the ...

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50 Years Later: Freedom Summers And Robert Williams Black Self-Defense, 1964 And 2014

Robert and Mabel Williams Fifty years ago, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), two of the most ...

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50 Years Later: Great March – But No Marching Orders

[Law Of The Land] Dr. King must be wondering: Where’s the plan?   There were inspiring words; but no marching orders. Thousands gathered to ...

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Washington Tribute To Bayard Rustin, Prime Organizer Of March On Washington

[March On Washington: Tribute]   The American Federation of Teachers, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Service Employees International Union and the National Black ...

50 Years AFter Dream: Zimmerman And Other Injustices Should Inspire US To Strive Harder

[Op-Ed: National] It is hard to believe that 50 years have passed since the fateful March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King seized ...

Economic Justice: Labor Must Step Foward To Reclaim Dr. King’s Dream

Reclaiming the Dream [50th Anniversary March On Washington] On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate their commitment to ...

Remembering a Truly American Moment March on Washington at 50: The nation’s “greatest demonstration.”

(The Root) — In the opening line of his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963, ...