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The first Million march set an example for missing the mark--attracting only hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. Later million marches haven't been even as successful; both the Million Woman March held in 1997 and two separate Million Youth Marches held in 1998 didn't even come close to...
I wonder if that was the last time. Over the decades, marches on Washington degenerated, it seemed, into merely coercive shows of force, of political plumage display. Sometimes, of course - especially in the vast antiwar outpourings of the late '60s - they possessed anarchic energy. And they sometimes accomplished their purposes...
Because of the '60s, I suspect (Woodstock, the moratorium marches, rock concerts), Americans have come to lose their fear of people assembled in mobs. In fact, Baby Boomers (a demographic mob themselves) like manifestations of this kind, like to see all those lighted matches winking and flickering. But during most...
Sophonie Telcy is a six-year-old girl, whose mother risked everything to remove her from the tiny island country of her birth, a country that is wracked by political turmoil and economic misery. After bringing Sophonie to the United States, her mother died, leaving Sophonie without care. Unlike a...
Recent events have clearly demonstrated that the Palmetto State is not defined or represented by the confederate flag. On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year, over 45,000 black and white South Carolinians rallied in Columbia to celebrate his legacy and call for removal of the flag. Two weeks...