Where:San Jacinto and Elgin St Details:Free;mlkgrandeparade.org 45th Annual Original MLK Day Parade The Black Heritage Society, in partnership with the City of Houston present its 45th Annual Original MLK Jr. Day Parade. This year's theme is “Climbing the Mountain to a Better Future.” ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: (14:10) John Donne called it years ago and placed it in graphic times, no man is an island entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. And he goes on toward the end to say any man’s death diminishes me because ...
Jr., including a Monday march beginning at Fourth and King streets, the Liberation Film Festival and the Black Comix Arts Festival. It is also the last weekend of the season for theUnion Square ice skating rink, so don't miss your chance to get in one last day on the ice. Read more ...
I was about 2½ months old when it happened. On April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) was assassinated. The official story is that a single “lone nut” bumbling petty crook, James Earl Ray, was staying at...
When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, leading to riots across America in 1968, Bobby Kennedy appealed for peace amidst “this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.” The parallel is exact. A black man is unjustly murdered. The ...
Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. Since being signed into law by President Reagan in 1983, Martin Luther King Day has been celebrated on the third Monday of January, close to his birt...
year over year the line-up just keeps getting better and better. I laugh when friends make the comment that the fest must be pretty boring if it’s “banjos and hippies strummin’ folk music all weekend.” Tell that to Gary Clark Jr, Jack White or Trombone Shorty. It’s a music lover...
We are thrilled to announce our seventh annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service. Each year, PAYETTE embarks on a pro bono, collaborative effort to make our design services accessible to local communities. The Day of Service includes a... ...
Martin Luther King Jr. said this in the 1960s and the PPC under the guidance of Dr. Barber and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and the mighty cohort of the poor and marginalized have been saying this since 2017. Barber and Theoharis and other prophets were saying this years before the PPC ...