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Black culture also includes food, so be sure to look for “Cooking with Soul” menu items — spotlighting authentic dishes and the talented chefs who create them — throughout Walt Disney World Resort, including EPCOT and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
And while you’re shopping for your obligatory pair of mouse ears to wear home, you can pick up writings by Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou and other inspiring members of the Black community at Sugarboo & Co.
You can find a detailed list of artists, foods and merchandise on the Disney Parks blog.
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On the 53rd anniversary of the day Dr. King was assassinated, here is a #thread of #speeches and #sermons in which he speaks truth to power, shares about his philosophy of nonviolence, and expounds on issues of injustice and what our righteous, rigorous response should be. #MLKpic.twitter.com/NYvNH64s3s
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My father’s final speech, given the evening before he was assassinated, 53 years ago today.
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The speech was delivered April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination. During the address King called for an end to racism, poverty and militarization by highlighting that Americans were being killed overseas while trying to guarantee certain rights they didn’t have at home.","_id":"4P3K2YAFEBDADBLXFDPOZABU44","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1617478720438,"type":"text","content":"“We were taking the Black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem,” King famously said.","_id":"JMI65ACRWRE5PGXWTMFORS6LMA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":["pos":215,"comment":"(5 p.m. Central time). 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That same year, a separate well-known but unlicensed midwife was issued a cease-and-desist order and threatened with fines by the Georgia Board of Nursing for calling herself a midwife. (The woman, Debbie Pulley, was a top official at the North American Registry of Midwives, an accredited certification group, and was non-practicing. Pulley sued the nursing board.)","_id":"SMYGS3DYV5BLBHSCHVMDYFAFKI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611939082246,"type":"text","content":"One bill introduced in the Georgia House that year would have licensed midwives certified by the Registry, which requires applicants to complete an apprenticeship or midwifery training program and pass a test.","_id":"SBLPN3XOGFE6VJJGGVUMRBZ7BQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611883987512,"type":"text","content":"That idea was fought by some Black direct-entry midwives who learned their crafts in a less formal way. Many found the Registry and other large midwifery organizations unwelcoming and their tests biased. They argued that linking licensure to that type of certification would be exclusionary to midwives of color with limited finances.","_id":"OCSJZP7EYFF5JL7VGTZTX3KHNM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1611840067220,"type":"text","content":"That group converged around a separate measure introduced by state Sen. 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But what got Coloradans talking about the piece when it was originally placed in a Denver park, was the less than life-like rendering of King by the late sculptor Ed Rose. (Rose died in Loganville, GA, in 2009). What really bothered people was the size of King’s head relative to the rest of his body. According to an obituary for Rose in the Denver Post, the foundation that commissioned the piece was so disappointed in the statue it refused to pay Rose. (He got his $35,000 payment after suing the foundation). The piece was so polarizing that it was eventually moved into storage then to a cultural center named for King in Pueblo, Colo. Denver eventually commissioned a new sculpture of King by Ed Dwight. Dwight’s version is thought to be the largest rendering of King outside Washington, D.C.","owner":"id":"ajc","workflow":"status_code":4,"caption":"The Denver sculpture of MLK and other figures, by Ed Dwight. 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All of the people depicted toward the base of the sculpture influenced King in some way and were champions of human rights: Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Mohandas “Mahatma” Ghandi and Rosa Parks. The bronze and granite work was dedicated in 2002 and stands in the Denver City Park.","owner":"id":"ajc","workflow":"status_code":4,"caption":"The bust of MLK in front of the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala. 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King has a different expression on the four faces protruding from the stainless steel globe. The globe reflects the face of the viewer and, according to Clay’s obituary the viewer’s reflection is to be a reminder that “we are all one people.” But since its dedication in 1989, the piece has been defaced with paint at least once. The pedestal is inscribed with excerpts from King’s speeches. Ironically, Clay, a children’s book illustrator, was honored in 1993 with the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Honor Award. The honor was for his work on the book, “Little Eight John.”","owner":"id":"ajc","workflow":"status_code":4,"caption":"A life-sized statue in Raleigh’s MLK Memorial Gardens. 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