";s:4:"text";s:4267:" (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)People march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial during the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Race in America is front and center during a pandemic that's disproportionately affected Black Americans Comedians Sasheer Zamata and Nicole Byer appear on NPR's Ask Me Another. Organizers and participants said Friday's march delivered a much needed rallying cry to mobilize.“If we do not vote in numbers that we’ve never ever seen before and allow this administration to continue what it is doing, we are headed on a course for serious destruction,” Martin Luther King III told The Associated Press before his rousing remarks, delivered 57 years after his father’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tony Shalhoub appear on NPR's Whether you enjoy watching football or baseball or looking for a night out at a stage performance with a loved one, we have just the solution you’re looking for. 2020 NPR - Ask Me Another Event Schedule The entire NPR - Ask Me Another event schedule is available at the TicketSupply website. That I’m less clear on because a lot of the polling numbers show that pretty overwhelmingly, younger people, millennials and Gen Z's are more progressive and that they are reluctantly turning to this pragmatic side of politics,” Brown said.That was clear as the Movement for Black Lives also marked its own historic event Friday — a virtual Black National Convention that featured several speakers discussing pressing issues such as climate change, economic empowerment and the need for electoral justice. Welcome to a night of stupidly smart fun. We’re going to vote for a nation that stops the George Floyds, that stops the Breonna Taylors.”Navy veteran Alonzo Jones- Goss, who traveled to Washington from Boston, said he plans to vote for Biden because the nation has seen far too many tragic events that have claimed the lives of Black Americans and other people of color.“I supported and defended the Constitution and I support the members that continue to do it today, but the injustice and the people that are losing their lives, that needs to end,” Jones-Goss, 28, said. Walter Carter, 74, of Woodbridge, Va., who attended the original March on Washington, attends 2020's March on … Recently Liked. “Bur these same groups that are most marginalized are saying it’s not enough to just vote, it’s not enough for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party to ask me for my vote. Ask me anything. Let me offer more detail. Ophira Eisenberg and Luke James on Sergei Bachlakov/NBC Join NPR-produced virtual events (and even host your own), see your favorite NPR hosts get creative working from home — or just catch a break.
Recent Comments