Tag: civil rights
October 27, 2020 /

A reminder from Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman as Halloween approaches

…no more mail in ballots, it’s time to put on your masks and deliver your vote in person.
January 15, 2018 /

Martin Luther King, “I have a dream.” When Hollywood attended the March on Washington (1963)

Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Speech – American Rhetoric.
December 31, 2017 /

As the old year greets the still slumbering new…

  It seems we must be reawakened to the challenges of living civilly. The 1920s, when this picture of Myrna Loy was taken, was a time similar in many ways to our own. It was an era of startling innovation, ushering in the dawn of a youth culture dubbed The…

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August 14, 2017 /

“Let us not be afraid to help each other—let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, July 8, 1938

More than a year has passed since I wrote the post below, and if anything, things have only gotten worse. The Republican candidate is now president. The ideals my father fought for, and a generation of young people risked and lost their lives for, have been desecrated. A man with…

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January 16, 2015 /

Civil Rights Roundtable 1963

January 20, 2014 /

Hollywood speaks out on Civil Rights

Left to right: James Baldwin, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte

January 21, 2013 /

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

The Rev. Dr. King was born January 15, 1929. Here he’s pictured with Governor Brown of California (father of our current Governor) at a freedom rally in 1961:  

October 25, 2012 /

BULLETS OR BALLOTS – VOTE

A real gun moll: If you’ve been following this blog you’ll know I have some pretty close ties to Hollywood and I bet you can guess which way I’m going to vote. Both my parents were active in the Civil Rights Movement and they both appeared in public and in…

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