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Voting rights advocates held the “March On for Washington and Voting Rights” rally to call for the passage of federal voting legislation and statehood for the District of Columbia. Among tho…

Speakers at Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network;s (NAN) annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast included Martin Luther King III, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, D…

Talk show host Joe Madison hosted his daily four-hour radio program, “The Black Eagle,” from the Sirius XM studios in Washington, D.C. Guests included April Ryan, the White House corresponde…

Radio talk shows hosts from around the country talked about the 2016 presidential election and the state of their industry. Among the participants were syndicated radio hosts Hugh Hewitt and…

In July, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. was the first African American to speak at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Members of the Club located 53-year old recordings of the speech …

Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and congressional colleagues spoke at a ceremony to unveil an official portrait of former House Judiciar…

Reverend Al Sharpton led the “Justice for All” March in Washington, D.C. following the lack of indictments in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Isla…

Craig Steven Wilder talked about his book, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, in which he explores the history of some of the country’s elite u…

Civil rights leaders, media commentators, low-wage workers and labor experts talked about the impact of the disappearance of good jobs and growing economic inequality on Martin Luther King, …

Civil rights leaders and contemporary movement leaders spoke at the Lincoln Memorial at a “Realize the Dream” commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Fr…

Opening remarks before civil rights leaders and contemporary movement leaders spoke at the Lincoln Memorial at a “Realize the Dream” commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Was…

Joe Madison and Crystal Wright talked about President Obama’s commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. In the speech he focused on responsibility and African-American m…