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What Will You Do To Celebrate The Dreamer?

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Tomorrow we observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. It is a federal and state holiday and Post offices will be closed; there will be no regular mail delivery, state and local government offices will be closed as well, and banks and public schools have the option to close.

To commemorate the King holiday, people have converged on King’s monument in Washington, DC., but I’m hoping that people will remember his message, not the monument. In the meantime, President Barack and Michelle Obama are calling on the American people to volunteer their services.

Churches all over the world will have services today and tomorrow, remembering King as a civil rights activist who changed the course of history for racial equality in the United States.

In 1963 King helped organize the March on Washington, an assembly of more than  200,000 protestors at which he made his famous “I have a dream” speech. The  march influenced the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was born January 15, 1929 and his holiday is observed every third Monday in January.

So what will you do to remember Martin Luther King’s life and legacy?

As requested..enjoy!

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Occupy ‘WALL STREET’ Is A Revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Occupy Wall Street protestors clogged streets and tied up traffic around the U.S. today to mark two months since the movement’s birth and signaled they aren’t ready to quit, despite the breakups by police of many of their encampments throughout these different cities.

More than 200 people were arrested in New York as protestors walked in the streets and chanted “banks were bailed out, while the American people were sold out!” and “All day, all week, shut down Wall Street”.

More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered near the New York Stock Exchange and sat down in several intersections. Helmeted police broke up some of the gatherings, but operations at the stock market were not disrupted.

Later, the crowd split up for rallies elsewhere in the city. Some also planned to head into the subways, then march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Protests took place in Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, Kansas City, MO, Buffalo, NY, Portland, Oregon and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Occupy Wall Street is a huge movement people….I sense a revolution marching in and after any revolution comes change!!!

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“Is Herman Cain The Next Black President Of These United States?”

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Today, new polls show the former pizza maker surging ahead of President Obama and his closest GOP rival, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Whether Herman Cain’s surge in the polls is temporary or has staying power, he’s enjoying a big enough bounce to take a very slight lead over President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. At the moment, the Georgia businessman is the only Republican with a lead of any kind over Obama, although former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has held a similar advantage several times and is currently trailing the president by just two points.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows Cain attracting 43% support, while Obama earns 41%.

According to Rasmussen Reports, Cain is tied with Romney for the lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.  Nobody else is even close at the moment.

Do you think Herman Cain can beat President Barack Obama in 2012? Talk to me people.

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“Martin L. King Statue Unveiled in Washington, DC Today”

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A stone sculpture honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled on the National Mall in Washington D.C. today.

The gigantic ‘Stone of Hope’ sculpture of King was created by Chinese artist Lei Yixin. The statue was erected near the George Washington Monument at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The memorial is the first on the National Mall to honor an African-American man and the first to honor a person who did not serve as president.

Engraved on one side of the statue are the words “OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN OF DESPAIR: A STONE OF HOPE.”

Tears come to my eyes every time the commercial is shown on television with mention of “the table of brotherhood” set across the United States speaking toward hope for equality.

The dedication of King’s memorial will take place on August 28; marking the 48th anniversary of King’s historic “I have a dream” speech.

Sorry loyal CEO reader Nicole, no Kim Hodashian wedding posts here!

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“IS OSAMA BIN LADEN REALLY DEAD?”

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In what is being called the biggest news since September 11, and a turning point in the global war on terrorism, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the mastermind behind 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, is dead.

According to multiple news organizations, the United States has the dead body of Osama Bin Laden in its custody. CNN reports that the U.S. had a sample of Bin Laden’s DNA on ice for just this pivotal moment in history. But despite this big news, some people who I’ve spoken too, don’t believe it’s true.

Some reporters knew about this critical development all day, but media organizations kept the news under wraps until the body was positively identified.

American forces are expected to release a picture of Osama Bin Laden’s dead body so that the Arab world has no doubt that the leader of Al Qaeda is really dead.