Oasis

The men and women who founded and built the NAACP saved nearly everything, establishing arguably the most important documentary record on civil rights struggles in America. That record comprises the largest archival collection in the Library of Congress.

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Dr. Martin Luther King was a moral giant and cherished hero of the world— a tireless champion of the poor and oppressed against the powerful. He understood the inescapable mutability of our fates and entreated the nation to embrace peace, justice and equality. He called on us to love humanity and one another and to fight for a just society.

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Four-year-old Jordan Savage played Rosa Parks and Maleek Chirico, 5, played the bus driver in the Drueding Center/Project Rainbow’s production of “The Story of the Bus” during the Center’s Martin Luther King Day of Service opening ceremony. Drueding Center/Project Rainbow provides transitional housing and comprehensive support services including early childhood education, tutoring, life skills and counseling for mothers and children in South Kensington to develop two generations of self-reliant adults.

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Eleven School District of Philadelphia students were among the 16 first-prize winners In the recent Young Voices Mlonologue Festival, which attracted more than 400 entries. The festival was sponsored by Philadelphia Young Playwrights.

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The year in news started with a capital H – for Hope. Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation’s 44th president and its first black president. Nearly 2 million people braved frigid temperatures on the National Mall, the U.S. Capitol grounds and along the parade route leading to the White House on Inauguration Day…

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