Residents living in St. Johns County are demanding help from Richmond American Homes after living with cracks, mold, and unsealed grout for more than a year.
During difficult times, MLK s message still inspires
MLK Day march canceled this year
The famous I Have A Dream speech delivered by Martin Luther King in 1963 was an address from a civil rights activist whose message is embedded in the hearts and minds of many Americans.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The famous I Have A Dream speech delivered by Martin Luther King in 1963 was an address from a civil rights activist whose message is embedded in the hearts and minds of many Americans.
âThat dream that Martin Luther King pertains to all us that believe in that dream to have freedom of speech, freedom of right to vote,â said Gracie Lopez, a Rio Hondo resident.
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The jungle north-east of Christmas Island’s immigration detention centre is dark and unforgiving. A person, seeking refuge or release, can disappear from sight in just a few steps.
The terrain runs steeply downhill to the nearby roiling sea. Jagged basalt rock, slippery and sharp, marks the descent. Treacherous country at any time of day.
But how a refugee under Australia’s protection came to be there, running weakened, staggering and disoriented through that jungle on a dark November night, is a four-year saga of punitive indifference, bureaucratic dishonesty and, finally, fatal incompetence.
Fazel Chegeni was already a vulnerable man when he arrived in Australia seeking the most basic of recognition as a human being. Stateless all his life, marginalised in every place he’d been, he had been beaten, tortured and left to die in a desert before he sought asylum in Australia.