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“March on Washington” Celebrates 60th Anniversary

As Alphonso David, president and CEO of the Global Black Economic Forum asked the crowd, “have we reached the mountaintop? Not by a long shot.” The event, sponsored by the King’s (Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King) Drum Major Institute, and the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, assembled a host of multiracial, […]

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