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VOLUME LXXIII NUMBER 19—SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013

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Commemorating 50th Anniversary Obama says:

Economics our Unfinished Business By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After repeatedly praising Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr., for leading a movement in the 1950s and 1960s that demolished America’s apartheid-like treatment of AfricanAmericans, President Obama told those attending an observance of the 1963 March on Washington Wednesday that making sure Blacks and whites are on the same economic level is America’s “great unfinished business.” Obama, the nation’s first Black president, spoke candidly on Wednesday about the need to eliminate the last vestiges of racial discrimination. “And so as we mark this anniversary, we must remind ourselves that the measure

MARCHERS, UNDETERRED BY light rain, marched on Washington Wednesday to renew the dream (NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen).

Latest March on Washington More Diverse By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent President Barack Obama of progress for those who marched 50 years ago was not merely how many Blacks had joined the ranks of millionaires; it was whether this country would admit all people who were willing to work hard, regardless of race, into the ranks of a middle-class life,” President Obama said. “The test was not and never has been (Continued on page 3)

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The 50th Anniversary for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom celebrated a more diverse coalition and needs, but the central themes resonated around voting rights, jobs, gun violence and equality in minority communities. At this year’s march, Blacks, progressive whites and the labor movement were joined by Latino groups and Native Americans, Asian Americans, the Gay and Lesbian community and members of women’s

rights and children’s rights organizations to protect Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder credited Dr. King for bringing about profound changes in the U.S. “Their march is now our march,” he said. “Our focus has broadened to include the cause of women, of Latinos, of AsianAmericans, of lesbians, of gays, of people with disabilities and of countless others across this great country who still yearn for equality, opportunity and fair treatment as we recommit ourselves to the quest for justice.”

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Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network and one of the key organizers of this year’s “National Action to Realize the Dream” said the march was built on activists who stood on the same ground five decades earlier. “There will be those that miscast this as some great social event but let us remember that 50 years ago some came to Washington having rode on the back of buses, some came to Washington that couldn’t stop and (Continued on page 2)

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