By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “You can’t allow 15,000 school boards to home bake their own little standards subject to their own political pressures and think we are going to have … [Read more...]
TO BE EQUAL: Whitney Young: Mr. Inside
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in D.C.
Fifty years ago, Whitney M. Young Jr., president of the National Urban League from 1961-71, worked alongside his fellow civil rights, social justice and labor movement leaders to organize the March on … [Read more...]
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All-Black revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire”on Broadway
Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The landscape of any Tennessee Williams play is the human heart, and I have a cast of people with heart.” -Emily Mann, director of the new Broadway revival of … [Read more...]
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“Red Tails” shoots down stereotypes
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We hope what youngsters get out of the story is that under some dire circumstances we prevailed. We performed successfully and we opened doors that they … [Read more...]