March On Washington

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August 27, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - Carol Carter-Walker and Judith Claire didn't know each other in 1963 when both attended the March on…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - We asked theGrio.com users that question and more in an exclusive survey, and their poignant and candid…
August 27, 2013
(AP) — Latinos were scarce among the 250,000 people who turned out in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, mainly because…
August 27, 2013
OPINION - In the speech, 'we' was the word repeated most: 30 times. We, meaning 'all of us'...
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Much like the march 50 years ago, jobs were very much on peoples’ minds and the concern…
August 27, 2013
VIDEO - A lot had changed for King since 1963. John F. Kennedy was gone. He had been impressed by…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The White House is hosting a forum called "50 Years Forward: Building Ladders of Opportunity" in anticipation…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Faith leaders from major African-American churches around the nation met with President Obama Monday morning...
August 26, 2013
ESSAY - Retracing the footsteps of civil rights icons, Saturday's throng of marchers sought new inroads towards justice...
August 26, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom...
August 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - This year marks the 50-year-anniversary of the March on Washington -- and although much racial progress has…
August 25, 2013
Lawmakers, activists, and civil rights leaders fired up a crowd of thousands on Washington, D.C.’s national mall Saturday to commemorate…
August 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Saturday, the NAACP acted robustly in concert with various groups, 100 percent behind the cause of…
August 25, 2013
VIDEO - Watch the Aug. 25, 1963 edition of Meet the Press, featuring interviews with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
August 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Young people are eager to influence this year's March on Washington, says Jessica Brown, national coordinator for…
August 25, 2013
For the next 16 hours the group rumbled up I-95 and the eastern seaboard toward Washington and a date with…
August 25, 2013
Thousands gathered at the National Mall Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
August 25, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - TheGrio.com asked several young African-American men to reflect on the day's events and share how the anniversary…
August 25, 2013
These leaders have given deposits greater than themselves in the hopes that, just as after the '63 march, people today…
August 25, 2013
ANALYSIS - We forget that civil rights was a contested process, and that assumptions about black violence made the public…