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A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...
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A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress ... Perry explores blue as a symbol of both hope and melancholy throughout Black history. "There was something about the universality of the color ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there
In the meantime, his widow, Coretta Scott King, kept lobbying for it ... today — we’ve won the holiday but the holiday is a symbol of liberty and justice for all and we must move from symbol ...
The long struggle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a great ...