civil rights
MLK’s 1963 fight to be commemorated with a new March on Washington
August 1, 202360 years since the “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Passing the baton: The Memphis metaphysics of Martin Luther King in ‘The Mountaintop’
June 26, 2023Hill finds the nuance in depicting a character with the status of a prophet, but who is, as those picket signs of the sanitation strikers he’s supporting declare, “a man,” after all.
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Harry Belafonte—Gigante de las artes y la lucha por la justicia y la democracia
April 26, 2023Harry Belafonte, intérprete de múltiples talentos y muy admirado, murió el martes 25 de abril a los 96 años.
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Harry Belafonte—Giant of the arts and the struggle for justice and democracy
April 26, 2023Speaking of himself, Belafonte said he was “an activist who became an artist: I was not an artist who became an activist.”
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Esther Jackson, 105: Life reflected the 20th century struggle for equality
August 30, 2022Her central roles in the Southern Negro Youth Congress, the Civil Rights Congress, the Committee to Defend Negro Leadership, and Freedomways Magazine have cemented her role in history.
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