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Martin Luther King: the story behind his ‘I have a dream’ speech

Posted on August 13, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Gary Younge The night before the March on Washington, on 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about the next day’s speech. “Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a dream’, his adviser Wyatt Walker … Continue reading →

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Last Week in Poverty: The Unfinished March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Posted on July 8, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Greag Kaufmann “[African-Americans] must march from the rat-infested, overcrowded ghettos to decent, wholesome, unrestricted residential areas disbursed throughout our cities…. They must march from the play areas in crowded and unsafe streets to the newly opened areas in the … Continue reading →

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