Showing posts with label Equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Equality. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Tayari Jones' Novel Oprah's Book Club Pick + Elizabeth Alexander To Lead Mellon Foundation

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A million congratulations to my Rutgers-Newark colleague Tayari Jones , on the publication of her new, fourth novel, An American Marriag...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Happy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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The July 10, 1966, march to City Hall from Soldier Field.  ( Chicago Tribune  historical photo) Today, on  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Kin...
Saturday, March 07, 2015

President Obama at Selma's 50th Anniversary

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Yesterday President Barack Obama traveled down to Selma , Alabama to participate in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of " Bl...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. Day: His 1965 Interview with Alex Haley

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Selma-Montgomery March:  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King leading march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for Afric...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from "The Impasse in Racial Relations," from The Trumpet of Conscience , San Francisco: ...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Obama Again Supports Marriage Equality + NC Again Denies Equal Rights + Garry Wills on the Myth of Marriage

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A busy week, with a big deadline, so these posts will be brief. I was very glad to see President Barack Obama cease his seesawing and...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Happy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Happy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day!  Here is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s commencement speech at the historically...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Photo: The Kiss

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V-J Day in Times Square © Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life, 1945) Marissa Gaeta (left) kisses fellow US naval officer Citlalic Snell ...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Happy Gay Pride + US Exits World Cup 2010

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Today in New York, Chicago, Toronto , and other cities across the US and globe, people are celebrating Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgende...