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Happy, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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Yesterday I attended a magnificent brunch celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. and the upcoming historic inauguration of Barack Obama.
Freida Wheaton’s home art gallery named “Studio 53″ was a fitting backdrop for this salon–a gathering of the most prominent African Americans in St. Louis and its expanded metro area…reaching as far as [...]
Hi, Honey! I’m Home! …as Civil Rights Dreaming Comes Into Its Own
And, what a homecoming it is…with the athletic olympics ending and the political olympics getting more heightened with the conventions in full gear.
On this day in 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front [...]
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