“So long as God let’s me live,” said Dorothy Irene Height in one of several oral history archive videos presented by the National Visionary Leadership Project, “I will be on the firing line.” She honored that commitment to herself and the causes of African Americans, women and children until her final days, with her every […]
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New START (Nuclear Reduction) Treaty Ready for Senate
(March 28, 2010) – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Moments after completing a call with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, President Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen, announced that an agreement with Russia on the terms of a new nuclear arms disposal treaty […]
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Baltimore’s New Mayor
” … for such a time as this.” Those words offered by the Rev. Bruce Haskins during the welcome and opening prayer at the swearing in of Baltimore City’s new mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, echoed the truth of this moment in the history of the city. In a quiet, somber ceremony Feb. 4 in the Ceremony […]
