Black History Month
These young men are still my heroes. I rearranged my schedule to watch every pitch they threw, every play they made, and every tear they cried along the way. There was a special glow in the city’s eye. Thanks for the excitement fellas.
The 2014 Jackie Robinson West All Stars players will be celebrated in Chicago long after we all are dead and gone. No scandal can take that away.
Bigging up another important Black man in American History in honor of Black History Month. Today we are gonna holla at Richard Wright, who is the author of the autobiographical “Black Boy,” which was the first book that I ever read from cover to cover in my entire life. I was fourteen years old, and […]
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause]
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
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