Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. will be the Grand Marshall of the 13th annual MLK Black History Month Parade… in Durham… Saturday at 12noon… at WG Pearson Elementary School – 3501 Fayetteville St. in Durham. and end at Lawson and Fayetteville at NCCU. Listen as I talked with Dr. Chavis about the parade, civil rights and […]
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VIA WizNation From disrespectful youth to lack of interest in celebrating his legacy. Something has gone very wrong with how we continue to build on…
Vice President Joe Biden is slated to deliver the keynote address at the Nation Action Network‘s Annual King Day Breakfast January 20 in Washington, D.C.…
President Barack Obama had a powerful conversation with Yolanda Adams at the White House, and explained what single women need to know about health care. Because…
Bernice King is celebrating the 50th anniversary of her father Martin Luther King Jr.‘s March on Washington, and she checked in on “The James Fortune…
Northerners often depict the South as backwards and racist. During the Civil Rights Movement, the South gave the North plenty of reasons to feel superiors. Snarling dogs, skin bruising water hoses and lynch mobs didn’t help the South’s image. The South’s racism was on full display as African Americans from Virginia to Alabama and beyond […]
Yesterday was all about echoes. Echoes from voices past continuing into beyond. A sea of tens of thousands cheer and chanting as they looked up at video monitors showing the first family walking down a pathway of Martin Luther King’s most inspiring quotes en route to a ceremony to dedicate a memorial to honor his […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maya Angelou is the latest prominent Black figure to voice reservations with the newly erected Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington D.C. Angelou, who consulted on the project, has an issue with a quote on the wall by the Tidal Basin of the memorial that reads: “I was a drum major for […]
