https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/rick-ross-misty-blanco-ib-mattic-winning-circle.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I heard King, though not clearly, as one of more than 100,000 once at the Spring Mobilization Against the Vietnam War in 1967 in front of the United Nations. On the holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, we think back on his speeches …
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Martin Luther King Jr’s Warning about Liberals and the Poor Peoples’ Campaign
New Orleans By favorite passage from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” written April 16, 1963 is worth remembering on this day when we are confronting blatant racism from the White House, obfuscations and fabrications from US Senators Tom Cotton from Arkansas and David Perdue from Georgia who suddenly rushed …
Leslie Dunbar, John Lewis, and Heeding the Call of the Civil Rights Movement
New Orleans Thus far President-elect Trump and his office have said nothing formally in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day. His Twitter-attack on civil rights warrior and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis capsulizes his own special oblivion to the struggles and aspirations of tens of millions who don’t live in Manhattan and winter in Florida. I …