WASHINGTON For Tonya Jackson, a Maximus call center worker from the Deep South, the point of the Martin Luther King, Jr., “continuation” march in D.C. is a decent job that pays enough to raise her family and the right to unionize to get it.
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The organization’s leaders were there on Aug. 28, 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.The post ADL participates in 60th-year commemoration of March
Sixty years after his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea, argue the work of those who marched on August 28, 1963, is not complete.
On the heels of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, Black leaders condemned the shooting in Jacksonville, Fla., that killed three people in what officials are labeling as a “racially motivated” attack. The Congressional Black Caucus and its chairman, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), denounced the attack in what they described as a “white…