The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest daughter said she's afraid American society is unraveling, telling a Christian radio network on Thursday that "I don’t know what’s going to happen ultimately to democracy." “There are a number of bridge builders out there, I’m one of them, and we are determined to ensure that we do not lose our humanity,” King said. Bernice King joined former U.N. Ambassador, congressman and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and several other panelists in a webinar hosted by the Alliance for Christian Media about the legacy of Dr. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights strategist and mentor to many more prominent figures of the movement.
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It’s time for a new Federal Writers’ Project.
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In its $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration seeks to expand the public’s conception of what is and is not infrastructure. It is right to do so. Infrastructure is not just the bridge we drive across; it is the home health aides who look after our parents and grandparents. Infrastructure is not simply the train we ride, but also the day care where we drop our children off before heading to work. Democrats are in a position to expand that definition even further. The United States should improve its physical infrastructure and support the human infrastructure that sustains our society but it should also build up America’s historical infrastructure. It should create a new Federal Writers’ Project.
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TS: To move down the road a little bit. so he went to Western Illinois University, and then he came to Peoria, Illinois to take a job at the Carver Center. And that was really the first time we hear about C.T. Vivian really engaging in nonviolent civil protests, with trying to integrate the lunch counters in Peoria back in the 40s, which I think was kind of it was an uncommon thing at that time. You don t really hear about things like that happening in the 40s too much. Can you talk a little bit about that?
The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting entitlements for African Americans will honour four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020.The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday - the day on March 7, 1965 civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement on Edmund Pettus Bridge.