Finding A Common Thread Of Racial and Social Justice In 1988 and 2024 By John McNamara The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) that nominated Kamala Harris for President last week brought many comparisons to conventions past. Not many delegates, however, were looking back. Delays in getting to the convention on chartered busses and through TSA-type … Continue reading A Tale Of Two Democratic Conventions
Category: 1968
Remembering April 4, 1968 In 2022
By John McNamara On Saturday, April 2nd the City will observe the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr with a 10 a.m. program at Smalley Elementary School that will be followed by wreath laying at MLK Park hosted by the Mary McLeod Bethune Club at 12 noon. Anyone of age in 1968 probably … Continue reading Remembering April 4, 1968 In 2022
Remembering April 4, 1968
By John McNamara I remember exactly where I was on April 4, 1968. That sunny and warm Thursday, like many others in my senior year in high school, I drove to Bradlee’s Department store on the Lynnway in Lynn, Massachusetts after school to punch in for the evening shift, earning some money before entering Boston … Continue reading Remembering April 4, 1968
Remembering 4/4/1968: 48 Years Ago On Monday
By John McNamara So far the campaign of 2016 -- thanks mainly to Donald Trump and his cohorts in the GOP field --is a disturbing reminder that any progress achieved on civil and voting rights made over the last 60 years is threatened. The Supreme Court's recent ruling weakening provisions of the landmark Voting Rights … Continue reading Remembering 4/4/1968: 48 Years Ago On Monday
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