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It’s the Biden/Harris ticket for me

July 9, 2024 admin 0

By Taroue W. Brooks On a random Tuesday, I was having a cocktail sitting at the bar in the Four Seasons. It’s a playground for adults to engage. Sometimes in thoughtful dialogue. This particular evening a white male from Iowa […]

Martin Luther King Jr. Day feels complicated this year

January 18, 2021 admin 0

We Cannot Not Lose Sight of the Historic Milestones By Ben Jealous Martin Luther King Jr. Day feels complicated this year.We have new reasons to celebrate. High on that list is the election of Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer […]

Rep. John Lewis’s casket crosses Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery

July 28, 2020 admin 0

New York Interview, June 8, 2020 “We must never ever give up, or give in or throw in the towel. We must continue to press on! And be prepared to do what we can to help educate people, to motivate people, to […]

Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80

July 18, 2020 admin 0

By CNN John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has […]