Top 10 Lists - Listverse. Pushing Ahead of the Dame. DeSmogBlog | Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science. The Basketball Jones. Justin Tinsley is a sportswriter who’s written for The Sports Fan Journal and The Smoking Section. 50 years ago this afternoon, perhaps America’s most recognizable speech and march took place in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech” may or may not have been his finest oratory ever — his impassioned, yet physically taxing “mountaintop” speech given the day before his assassination hits home with the same intensity and forward thinking — however, what happened in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, became the focal point of a battle for equality still, in many ways, being fought today. While King being in attendance is common knowledge, in close proximity was another titan of his own profession: Bill Russell, who stood just feet away from Martin.
Ironically, the Celtics icon never figured the speech would be as revered as it is half a century later. “Get down here,” Charles Evers, Medgar’s older brother, said to Boston’s superstar. Kill Screen. A Hamburger Today - America's Favorite Hamburger Weblog! Red Carpet Fashion Awards.
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Off the clock, I went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest blockbuster in the Marvel movie universe, and the one most likely to incite anger on Fox News followed by anger-at-the-anger on The Daily Show. It wasn't planned this way, but the two films went together like a white wine and fish pairing. The Unknown Known comes to the screen with heavier expectations, of course, and an aura of Importance. Eleven years ago, as Americans began to turn on the postwar occupation of Iraq, Morris released the definitive interview with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. It wasn't McNamara's first on-screen apology—he had, as the movie shows, been making them for years—but it was indeliable and perfectly timed.
Donald Rumsfeld was not paying attention. But that's it. It's played for darkness, for a while. WFMU's Beware of the Blog. EDC.