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Aug 26, 2010

Guest Commentary

The Un-Abolishable N-Word

By Ezrah Aharone Guest Commentator

To pacify society, Media Band-Aids are constantly placed on open wounds of unhealed racism as the Shirley Sherrod incident demonstrated. Although the William Morris Agency dropped Mel Gibson for spewing the N-Word among other rants, Leonard Rowes new Michael Jackson book shows Morris executives using the N-Word 232 times in emails he uncovered during a…

To pacify society, Media Band-Aids are constantly placed on open wounds of unhealed racism as the Shirley Sherrod incident demonstrated. Although the William Morris Agency dropped…

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Commentary

I Have A Dream Speech

By Dr. Martin Luther King

This is the complete text of Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a…

This is the complete text of Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. I am happy…

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