March on Washington

A Message to Millennials: We Are the Children of Dr. King's Dream

Heather McGhee | Posted 03.18.2012

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How is it that life has gotten harder financially for the vast majority of Americans over the past forty years, yet we have had so few public solutions?

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Speak Out: America Is a Free Speech Forum

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.07.2012

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When political protest is caged, it's not just the rights of a few protesters that are at stake. The very definition of freedom is in danger. Freedom cannot be exercised from within a cage.

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Right to Know March on Washington, Part 1

Maria Rodale | Posted 12.17.2011

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It was one of those odd moments when I'm running out my office door but the phone is ringing, and I turned the phone around to see who was calling and...

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The President Delivered. Now, It's Our Turn. Let's March on Washington

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.09.2011

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The trumpet of the President's words and proposal Thursday night summons the middle class to exert its power and its influence in the only way it can -- through its numbers.

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In His Own Words: Dr. King's Leadership Legacy for Economic Justice

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 11.02.2011

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As our nation commemorates "Labor Day," it's fitting that we review at this time the "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged," originally proposed by Dr. King.

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A Domestic Marshall Plan: Forget Going "Big vs. Small," Instead, Go "Simple and Effective"

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.31.2011

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Obama should focus on two and only two proposals, and they each must take account of perceived prior failures. They must be guarantees, not incentives that rely on what side of the bed someone gets up on in the morning.

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Martin Luther King Family And Friends Remember Landmark Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 10.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Martin Luther King III stood in the sun-splashed lobby of the Willard Intercontinental Hotel late last week, looking like a heavier, bal...

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Remembering Martin Luther King and the March for Jobs and Freedom

Algernon Austin | Posted 10.28.2011

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"Jobs and freedom" require equal opportunity in all aspects of life. Freedom means access to quality education and good housing. Freedom means full participation in the political system. Freedom means fairness in criminal justice.

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WATCH: MLK Memorial To Be Dedicated On 'I Have A Dream' Anniversary

HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 10.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- This Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, marks the 48th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech. It's also the d...

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A Look Black: March On Washington, 1963

Posted 10.22.2011

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This Sunday, August 28, 2011, will mark the 48th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr's epic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there ...

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Let Us Remember Dr. King's Struggle for Economic Justice

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 10.22.2011

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We are facing generations of underemployment, financial insecurity and enormous levels of inherited debt. Almost 50 years after the March on Washington, racial economic inequality is on the rise rather than declining.

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3 Key Strategic Ingredients for the President's Get America Working Plan

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.14.2011

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The argument is not that government should do everything, any more than the private sector can do everything, but that there are critical functions that government can uniquely perform.

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March on Washington for Jobs, Hope and Real Change

Brent Budowsky | Posted 09.10.2011

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It is time for the real heirs to Samuel Adams, and John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, to come Washington and answer the pretenders who do things in the name of the Founding Fathers that violate the ideals of the Founding Fathers.

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March on Washington for Jobs

Brent Budowsky | Posted 08.16.2011

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Let's take back America from the futility of punishing joblessness. Let's begin with a million men coming to Washington, alongside a million women, waving millions of American flags, supporting Made in the USA jobs on the day that honors labor.

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Little Known History of Labor Rights and Civil Rights

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 05.25.2011

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The American economy has been one where wealth and income is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite, creating a top heavy economy versus a middle class economy that was at the center of America's most prosperous years.

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Witness Heroes

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.25.2011

I heard Martin Luther King's dream that hot day in August and was never the same. Growing up in the civil rights era without being able to participate as a young child felt like a reed being buffeted by the wind.

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If Educators Really Wish to Honor Dr. King...

Gary Stager | Posted 05.25.2011

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Schools are the natural setting to inform students of our history. Yet we tell so few historical stories and most are watered down until they become fairy tales and meaningless happy talk.

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A Sad Anniversary: John Lennon's Assassination

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

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I was recently in Montreal at Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where John and Yoko bedded down.

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One Nation March: Sometimes Size Doesn't Matter

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

The One Nation Working Together march did not draw as many people to the Washington Mall as Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally a few weeks prior. A...

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10-2-10 Rally Gives Progressives a Chance to Stand Up Straight

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sometimes the day-to-day back and forth of politics can cause us to forget what's really at stake and the gulf between progressive and right-wing values -- the difference between our vision of society and of the other side.

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2010 Workers' Voice Awards: Worker Worthy Pop Culture Standouts

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wanna honor Labor Day but not work at it? Check out any of these pop culture expressions from the last year. Just in time for your nod to Labor Day, ...

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A Champion of Federal Power

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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This ideological dichotomy in our body politic has become the defining feature of the upcoming November elections, and it was put on full display this past Saturday at two mass rallies in our nation's capitol.

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Reclaiming the Dream

Rep. Barbara Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

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There may be no figure in America who has done as much to encourage racial resentment and grievance over the last two years as Glenn Beck.

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Take Back the Streets From Beck, Palin, Fox News, The Koch Brothers, and the Tea Party

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans who vote down unemployment insurance and try to pass more tax cuts for the rich should be scared to show up in public. It's time for progressives to rediscover their history of mass protests.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Glenn Beck's 'Restoration of Honor' Rally

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Civil Rights leaders who justifiably stake a "proprietary" claim to the legacy of the March on Washington should, in the tradition of Dr. King, extend the hand of fellowship to Beck and his followers.

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