James Clyburn
Clyburn says Obama election would change Americans’ view of race
By The Admin on August 24, 2008
Matt Murphy, Media News Group – The leading African American member of Congress said Sen. Barack Obama’s election holds the potential to immediately change the way Americans think about race. “Overnight that will say to every black child, every brown brown child that this country has the ability to get beyond race,” said U.S. Rep. [...]
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Obama and the Legacy of the 1963 March on Washington
By The Admin on August 20, 2008
Touré F. Reed, Black Agenda Report – August 28, 2008 marks the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington. Forty-fifth anniversaries rarely garner the kind of attention reserved for their quarter and half-century counterparts. But as the Democratic Party prepares to nominate a black man as its presidential candidate on the anniversary of the march, [...]
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