Is The Dream Alive?
August 28, 2007
On this date 44 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech at a civil rights rally near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The rally was organized by a number of civil rights groups that partnered together to mobilize the public to put pressure on congress to pass a strong civil rights bill.
44 years later the U.S. Department of Justice reports that while African Americans comprised only 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2005, they were victims of about 49 percent of all homicides that year.
Is the dream still alive?
