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ThyBlackMan.com) I sat at my desk, as frozen as a block of ice, listening to one of the most heated conversations I’ve ever heard on the radio.
Tavis Smiley and Rev. Al Sharpton were mad, and you could hear it in their voices. This wasn’t “radio mad,” where you pretend to fight in order to get ratings. It was “I’m coming to your mama’s house to get you” mad, the kind of anger that normally doesn’t spill over to the American public.
The contentious dialogue was rooted in Smiley’s recent attack on Rev. Sharpton for a
Civil rights to the White House: Black leaders who blazed trails in US politics and changed American history
By Chris Williams article
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is shown in the early morning light on Martin Luther King Day January 15, 2018 in Washington DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The Civil Rights Movement marked a pivotal turning point in Black history. First gaining traction in the 1950s with Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights advocates demonstrated, protested and remained steadfast in the fight for equality between communities.
Advocates for equality knew their work wasn’t in vain when the U.S. elected its first Black president in 2008 and then elected its first female and Black vice president in 2020 both historic moments.
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