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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reaction to the death of Tony and Emmy-winning actor Cicely Tyson at 96. ___ 'This one hurts, today we honor and celebrate the life of one of the greatest to ever do it. Thank you Cicely Tyson. Rest in great power.' — Emmy-winning actress Zendaya via Twitter. 'Cicely Tyson is one of those legends you'd hoped we would have forever. And you knew it was a silly dream but you dreamt it anyway. This day is hard for so many reasons. This is a massive loss. Thank you for your gifts, queen.' — actor-comedian-writer Robin Thede […]
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old mana few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March due to the coronavirus. I woke up one morning and my father told me that we are poor and schools will never reopen, she said. Her father explained that an []
Air Force will honor the Tuskegee Airmen with special football uniforms this season in a gesture that, while timely, was more coincidence than a reaction to current events.
Martin Luther King Jr., once said, Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable…Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
King, the most prominent figure in the modern civil rights movement, worked in the public spotlight for 13 years--from 1955 to 1968--to fight for desegregation of public facilities, voting rights and an end to poverty.
It was men such as Howard Thurman, Mordecai Johnson, Bayard Rustin that introduced and encouraged King to read the teachings of Gandhi.
Benjamin Mays, who was one of Kings greatest mentors, provided King with an understanding of history. Many of Kings speeches are sprinkled with words and phrases originated by Mays.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
While King read many books about Gandhi, it was Howard Thurman who first introduced the concept of nonviolence and civil disobedience to the young pastor.
Thurman, who was King’s professor at Boston University, had travelled internationally during the 1930s. In 1935, he met Gandhi while leading a “Negro Delegation of Friendship” to India. The teachings of Gandhi stayed with Thurman throughout his life and career, inspiring a new generation of religious leaders such as King.
In 1949, Thurman published Jesus and the Disinherited. The text utilized New Testament gospels to support his argument that nonviolence could work in the civil rights movement. In addition to King, men such as James Farmer Jr. were motivated to use nonviolent tactics in their activism.
Thurman, considered one of the most influential African-American theologians of the 20th Century, was born on November 18, 1900, in Daytona Beach, Fl.
Thurman graduated from Morehouse College in 1923. Within two years, he was an ordained Baptist minister after earning his seminary degree from Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary. He taught at the Mt.
When Vanessa Mdee said she knew actor and singer Rotimi was her husband days after meeting him in 2019, people had a lot to say about it. But as it turns out, the 32-year-old singer knew what she was talking about, because the couple is now engaged to be married.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday parents should stay atop their children's required vaccinations and routine checkups during the coronavirus pandemic, even as the city plans for an all-virtual start for public schools in the fall.
The year two thousand and twenty has been an ongoing saga of life-altering events. Many of the adorned, traditional celebrations, trips, and gatherings were canceled, rescheduled, or modified for the safety of humankind. As the holiday season approaches, COVID-19 restrictions have once again forced us to make drastic changes to holiday family gatherings, but there … Continued
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