I Have a Dream and 99 Other Groundbreaking 20th Century Speeches
By Isabel Sepulveda, Stacker News
On 1/31/21 at 11:00 AM EST
The 20th century was one of the most varied, hopeful, and tumultuous in world history. From the Gilded Age to the beginning of the Internet Age with plenty of stops along the way it was a century punctuated by conflicts including two World Wars, the Cold War, the War in Vietnam, and the development of nuclear warfare. At the same time, the 20th century was characterized by a push for equality: Women in the United States received the right to vote after decades of activism, while the civil rights movement here ended the era of Jim Crow, inspired marginalized groups to take action, and introduced this country to great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Thursday, Jan. 28, expressed belief that it would be better to hold a constitutional assembly than a constitutional convention in the event amendments to the 1987 Constitution are formally considered to revise its “restrictive” economic provisions.
Gemma Cruz Araneta
“Maybe, I will have to leave the country,” former US President Donald Trump said, jokingly, in one of his super-spreader rallies. He firmly believed that there was only a one in a quadrillion possibility that he could lose the 3 November elections. Well, he did lose! About 5 million American citizens denied him a second presidential term. Since then, he has relentlessly tried to undo his sprawling defeat. The courts were no help, these unceremoniously threw out the majority of cases his lawyers had filed for lack of evidence. Last 6 January, he instigated that violent invasion of Capitol Hill, which only served to inject steel in the collective spine of Congress, and of Vice President Mike Pence.
Gordon F. Joseloff, 75
Gordon F. Joseloff, editor and publisher of WestportNow, former Westport first selectman and an award-winning veteran journalist who reported from London, Moscow, Tokyo, and other world capitals for United Press International and CBS News for more than two decades, died Nov. 9, 2020. He was 75.
Gordon Joseloff: journalist
He had been battling a rare blood cancer, myelofibrosis, for three years.
Joseloff founded WestportNow in March 2003 as one of the nation’s first community news websites. Since then, it has gained national attention and is often cited as a model for Internet community journalism sites. It has won numerous awards for excellence from the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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