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Pasadena Celebrates Black History Month - 2021
2/1/21.
The City of Pasadena is celebrating Black History Month by recognizing the achievements and contributions of Black Americans and their central role in our nation’s history with virtual programs, events, and activities for all ages. Pasadena Public Library; the Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department; and the Pasadena Black History Committee are offering a month-long series of programs in February. Library programming is sponsored by The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library. The Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department and Pasadena Black History Committee are holding events in lieu of Pasadena’s 39th Annual Black History Month Parade and Festival.
good evening. we don t get to see them or know their names, and most americans actually prefer not to spend a whole lot of time thinking about the men who have been rounded up as enemy combatants and imprisoned at guantanamo bay in cuba. we think of them when they become an issue like when candidate obama vowed to close the facility, and tonight those prisoners are back in the news because 100 of them are a hunger strike, apparently preparing to take their own lives and do it slowly under heavy guard at guantanamo bay. some of them are being force fed now, and now the president is facing some tough questions about what to do. our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, watching it all from our d.c. newsroom today. andrea, good evening. the president promised to close guantanamo as soon as he took office, but years later he has been blocked by congress, the military court system, and now facing that hunger strike by the prisoners, he s clearly frustrated. r