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Madison in the Sixties – the first week of February 1969 – the Black Revolution symposium. From February 3-8, twenty-one nationally renowned guests – including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young – and forty-three faculty, staff, and students, lead a conference at the University of Wisconsin entitled “The Black Revolution: To What Ends?” Produced by Union Forum Committee co-chairs Margery Tabankin and Neil Weisfeld for $8,861, the six-day symposium attracts 16,500 attendees and crystallizes the incipient Black power movement on campus. Chancellor Edwin Young unwittingly helps...

We Need to Celebrate: Riz Rollins on Martin Luther King Jr Day and KEXP’s Expansions MLK Unity Dance Party KEXP On Sunday, Jan. 17, KEXP will host its 21st annual MLK Unity Dance Party. Though, it’ll be a bit different this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, this year’s event will take place exclusively on KEXP’s radio broadcast and live streaming online. The celebration starts at 6 PM PT with Sunday Soul hosted by DJ Supreme La Rock and continuing on Expansions hosted by DJ Riz Rollins and featuring mixes from all the Expansions DJs – Kid Hops,...

EMBARGOED UNTIL SEPT. 11, 2002 -- (NYT45) NEW YORK -- Sept. 6, 2002 -- 9-11-PEOPLE-DEWITT -- In a changed world, even santa's lap doesn't seem as safe. Maurice De Witt, who works as a Santa Claus in Rockefeller Center, holds onto a doll of a black santa taken at his apartment last month. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times) Chester Higgins Jr.

When i was a kid and later i got involved as i got older, even in my teen years, but you always had republicans that would stand up. i remember what i was a very young kid, eric dirkson and others helped get the civil rights act through. and charles persy in illinois, once i became involved in operation bread basket worked with groups. where were the republicans that are standing up the donald trump and this kind of appeal he's making that she refers to to these kind of base and bigoted kind of people? >> reverend sharpton, you're referring to a republican party that is nonexistent. that repub...

But i want you to know the names, that we as a people will get to the promised land. >> now 50 years later, we gathered three generations of civil rights leaders at the schaumberg center. welcome to the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king. how are civil rights affecting a -- i'm joined tonight by a very special panel. dr. mel what peels who at the age of 15 stared down hatred. and the man who headed up operation breadbasket at the age