NAACP President Benjamin Jealous – who’s brother is gay – talks to Big Think about the African American and LGBT communities, about Bayard Rustin, the gay man who organized the 1963 March on Washington and advises that LGBT activists can find great allies in the African American community, if they reach out more. Please click inside to read the transcript, as published by Big Think.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 – 46 years ago Sunday – during a campaign stop in Dallas, Texas.
It is hard to convey the impact this young President had in his three years in office – and it’s hard to imagine the impact he might have had if he lived. There’s evidence he might have pulled out of Vietnam and who knows where we might have been with space exploration. But given the Kennedy family connection to Barack Obama, one truly wonders if America might have made more progress on race and – given Bayard Rustin – gays. Click inside to read the story of JFK and race. Meanwhile – here is President John F. Kennedy’s live televised historic speech on race, given five months before his assassination.
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