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Thousands mark March on Washington
By Alan Gomez & Eliza Collins Tens of thousands gathered Saturday on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the … Continue reading
50 years after the March on Washington, what would MLK march for today?
By Peter Dreier What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. march for if he were alive today? America has made progress on many fronts in the half-century since King electrified a crowd of 200,000 people, and millions of Americans … Continue reading
Bayard Rustin: the gay black pacifist at the heart of the March on Washington
By Gary Younge When civil rights leaders met at the Roosevelt Hotel in Harlem in early July 1963 to hammer out the ground rules by which they would work together to organise the March on Washington there was really only … Continue reading
Generation X — the weakest generation?
By Dana Milbank In my mother’s telling, I exist because of the March on Washington . Her account went something like this: In 1963, she was a student at Goddard College, an experimental school in Vermont that attracted the forerunners … Continue reading
Why Martin Luther King’s ‘Dream’ Speech Is So Hard to Find Online
By Dustin Volz As Washington gears up to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech later this month, one thing might be missing from the celebrations: the speech itself. A full, … Continue reading
Still Marching for Jobs
By Imara Jones In less than a week, the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will take place on the same site as it did in 1963. The event, coordinated by the National Action Network … Continue reading
The Misremembering of ‘I Have a Dream’
By Gary Younge When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took the podium on August 28, 1963, the Department of Justice was watching. Fearing that someone might hijack the microphone to make inflammatory statements, the Kennedy DOJ came up with a … Continue reading
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Fast-food workers uniting to strike on Aug. 29
By Jonathan Berr McDonald’s, Burger King , Wendy’s and their rivals can sell food inexpensively because they pay their workers low wages. That unpleasant economic reality will confront diners in eight cities later this month during a work stoppage organized by a … Continue reading
Building a New Racial Justice Movement
By Rinku Sen This week, the nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with events in Washington, D.C., and many other cities. A hot summer of race news—Moral Mondays to preserve voting … Continue reading
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