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Showing videos filed under: Manning Marable
Jesse Jackson: Marching with Workers to Remember Dr. King
April 5, 2011April 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in Memphis to support public sanitation workers, organizing with AFSCME. Today, public workers are under attack once again, but around the country workers and their allies are marching and rallying both to remember Dr. King's legacy and renew their commitment to his struggle.Remembering Manning Marable
April 5, 2011Today we also mark another loss: the passing of Manning Marable, a tower of both intellect and activism. One of the leading scholars on African-American history and the legacy of institutional racism and economic injustice, his formidable biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is being released this week.Jesse Jackson, The Hour of Sunlight, and Manning Marable
April 4, 2011April 4 is the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was in Memphis to support public sanitation workers, organizing with AFSCME. Today, public workers are under attack once again, but around the country workers and their allies are marching and rallying both to remember Dr. King's legacy and renew their commitment to his struggle.Was Eric Holder Right?, Rebel Diaz on Rap and Politics, and a Highflying Act
February 23, 2009In a speech before the Department of Justice celebrating Black History Month last week, Attorney General Eric Holder said that we remain “a nation of cowards” when it comes to the issue of race in America. Referring to the “historical experience of black people in this nation” Holder argued that to get to the heart of this country’s history we must examine its racial soul.The Historical Moment: A Mind Bending Accomplishment
November 6, 2008We not only made Black history, but we remade American history, says Manning Marable, a professor of history at Columbia University. Obama’s victory is a “mind-bending accomplishment.” Marable remembers the days of Jim Crow well. It is in living memory for many of us that African-Americans were denied access to the ballot.A Mind Bending Accomplishment, Creating a Mandate, and The New Majority
November 5, 2008Manning Marable, a professor of history at Columbia University, says that Barack Obama’s victory is a “mind-bending accomplishment.” Marable, who at 58 remembers Jim Crow well, says that by electing Barack Obama we have lived black history and remade American history at the same time. Forty Seven Years after the Freedom Ride Campaign to register African-American voters in the Jim Crow South, the United States has elected its first African-American president.
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