Tag: National Mall
Attorney Ben Crump Files Class Action Suit Against U.S. Gov’t on Behalf of Black...
By Stacy M. Brown, Senior National Correspondent, NNPA Newswire
America’s “Black Attorney General,” Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on Wednesday, October 12, announced a class...
Lincoln Memorial Centennial Harks Back to History
By Kay Coles James, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia
On May 30, 1922, thousands gathered on the National Mall to dedicate the Lincoln Memorial....
House passes bill to study new Asian Pacific American museum
By Associated Press
Efforts to create a national Asian Pacific American museum in Washington, D.C., pushed ahead Tuesday with House passage of legislation that would...
Old statues of Confederate generals are slowly disappearing – will monuments honoring people of...
By Frederick Gooding, Jr., Texas Christian University
With most of the legal challenges resolved after the violent Unite the Right rally, and the statue of...
Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
By Sharon Austin, University of Florida
On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers.
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