Dr. Martin Luther King

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My Activism For Justice Was Inspired by Dr. King

Photo: Dr. King Portrait by Betsy G. Reyneau–Wikipediacommons  I was marching on Broad St. and Market St. in downtown Newark, NJ with 100 other ...

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I Have Been To The Mountaintop — Dr. King’s Message of Economic Empowerment

Dr. King delivering his last speech. Photo: YouTube     The following is excerpted from Dr. Martin Luther king’s last speech at the Mason ...

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Tribute: My Friend Dr. John Maguire, Dr. King’s Ally, Was a Brave and Happy Warrior for Justice

Marian Wright Edelman, John Maguire and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961 at Wesleyan University   My dear friend Dr. John Maguire readily ...

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“Green Book” – Not Our Story; His-Story, Their Fiction

Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in “Green Book”   Dr. Manning Marable, in “Escaping From Blackness: Racial Identity and Public Policy,” September 2000 put ...

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Black Police Officers and the Black Liberation Struggle: Challenges and Opportunities

Left to right: Leonard Weir is on the left with the dark suit and bag on his shoulder. Bob Harris is in the center. ...

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Tribute To Rev. James Lawson: At 90, Still Tireless Warrior for Soci-economic and Political Justice

Rev. James Lawson. Photo: Vanderbilt.edu This is how Rev. James Lawson puts it: “The way through chaos, calamity, and confusion is not by adding ...

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My Reflections On Dr. King and Source of his Greatness

Dr. King and Coretta Scott King. Photo: Flickr I first heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person on April 19, 1960 at ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King and Ms. Ella Baker

Ella Baker. Photo-ebay I woke up this morning thinking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And then I began thinking about Ella Baker, whose ...

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Donald Trump’s Perfect Racist Track-record Versus Denials by Apologists

Donald Trump. Perhaps the most vile president in the world today. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr Donald Trump’s characterization of Haiti and African countries as “shithole ...

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“Fake News”? Without Courageous Media Civil Rights Progress Would Have been Delayed

Pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells. Source: YouTube Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., knew the power of media and once observed: “The brutality with which ...