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Voices boomed from the steps of Memorial Church last night as hundreds of students, professors and local residents gathered for a candlelight vigil in memory of Amadou Diallo...
Besides numerous speeches, the vigil included several poetry readings and musical performances by groups including Kuumba Singers, who led the gathering in a rendition of James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing...
BLSA's efforts, which are part of a national campaign to raise awareness about the Diallo case, will culminate next Wednesday in a candlelight vigil...
...eastern edge, Lyudmila Babitskaya never moves far from the television or telephone. For more than a month, she has been waiting to learn the fate of her husband Andrei Babitsky, a U.S.-funded Radio Liberty reporter who disappeared in Chechnya. "It started as a nightmare," she says of her vigil, "but it's turning into a horror story...
...died, the funeral train moved slowly through the rural South to a service in Washington, then past the now thriving cities of the North, and finally to Hyde Park, N.Y., in the Hudson River Valley, where he was born. Wherever it passed, Americans by the hundreds of thousands stood vigil, those who had loved him and those who came to witness a momentous passage in the life of the nation. Men stood with their arms around the shoulders of their wives and mothers. They stood in clusters, heads bowed, openly weeping. They clasped their hands in prayer. A father lifted...