The 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination comes amid a fierce struggle for the soul of America.
We will celebrate the progress that has been made since Dr. King was taken from us in 1968, and decry the agenda that is still unfinished.
Rev Dr Martin Luther King is one of the greatest leaders history has ever known and yet I’m afraid that though his name is internationally recognized, we have, as a nation, yet to fully comprehend the man and his ideas.
As the world community observes and celebrates the 89th birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is important for Black America to assess how far we have come 50 years since the tragic brutal assassination of Dr. King in Memphis, Tennessee of April 4, 1968.
It’s all about being of service to another. You don’t have to do it on the magnitude of Dick Gregory.
I’m sick of symbolic things; we’re fighting for our lives”. Thus, for Obama’s election to be more than a useful symbol for a country unable to criticize and seriously change itself, it must be part and parcel of our struggle to save and expand lives
The movie Django: Unchained caused- and movies on slavery since then continue to generate-mostly negative conversation and commentary, among Blacks. However, it’s mostly talk. No matter how Black people feel about these films, they’re not likely to take Hollywood to task for its distortion of history.
The main unifying factor in Europe at that time was a uniquely organized political organization, better known as the Catholic Church.
Ayuko Babu talks about the movies featured in the 2017 Pan African Film Festival. Host: Brandon I. Brooks
“In this country, 80 percent of the lawyers are white.” said DA Jackie Lacey. “The law profession is even less diverse than the medical profession.”
She could simply be remembered as the United States’ first African American first lady and that would be sufficient. Except, Michelle Obama was so much more.
Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th and first Black President of the United States has been called many things. He is considered an adept orator, a man of consummate grace and prodigious intellect; the President who made healthcare coverage a reality for millions of Americans, as well as the President that said “the last person Osama bin Laden saw on earth was an American and hopefully, at that moment, he understood that the American people hadn’t forgotten the 3,000 people he killed”.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than a dreamer. He was a man who had the will to carry a light in the darkness.
In the end, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz died on his own terms: with his boots on, unrepentant, defiant, a thorn in the flesh of 11 American presidents, survivor of assassination attempts by the United States government (Cuban counterintelligence officials place the number at 638), revered by admirers, scorned and hated by critics and detractors, hailed as a savior, reviled as a dictator.
President Barack Obama said Saturday night he will take it as a “personal insult” if the African-American community fails to turn out for the presidential election and encouraged black voters to support Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.