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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘I Have a Dream’

I Have A Dream

By Denis Campbell • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics
For Our EU Friends Who May Never Have Seen This

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as [...]



“The Fierce Urgency of Now,” 45 Years Later

By Denis Campbell • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Features
The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a [...]