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A Stone of Hope

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Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered a speech that resonated across the country. How much of that dream is reality today? Would Dr. King say the African American still "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity?" We'll discuss the speech and the dream. Originally aired 8/27/13.Julia Bell Rogers, attended 1963 march
William Fulton, attorney, Gallagher Sharp
Stanley Miller, former executive director, Cleveland chapter NAACP
Regennia Williams, PhD, associate professor of history, Cleveland State University