Martin Luther King Memorial on the Mall!
 

Congratulations to the men of Alpha Phi Alpha! The groundbreaking for the MLK Memorial was today and it all began with your organization's efforts. A permanent place on the mall honoring that part of our history is long overdue. The design is beautiful as well. A few good links below. (The CBS video is good)

"The Martin Luther King Jr., National Memorial is a planned memorial, spearheaded by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, to be constructed in Washington, D.C. as a permanent testament to American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The memorial will have three underlying themes: justice, democracy and hope — highlighted by the use of water, stone and trees respectively throughout the memorial."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...ional_Memorial

"President Bush, former president Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, poet Maya Angelou and other dignitaries gather this morning on the National Mall to break ground for the Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial. It will be the first memorial on the Mall dedicated to an African-American, and our Gannett colleagues at the Detroit Free Press write in an editorial this morning that "this is a fitting exclamation point for the King legacy. And the location could not be more perfect -- about a half-mile from the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his legendary 'I Have Dream' speech in August 1963."
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...morial_a_.html

http://www.mlkmemorial.org/site/c.hk....BD3C/Home.htm

http://www.mlkmemorial.org/site/c.hk...ry_Johnson.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2174958.shtml

I wish I could have been there for the groundbreaking

Ditto....but a bruh was on site was calling me throughout the day with updates as the speakers were on the podium.

Bruhs did it up right.

Soledad O'Brien for Miss Black and Gold, anyone? :p :)

Congrats.

Now we have to make sure that monument isn't the center of crime and poverty like the schools and streets in his honor are.

***MEH-EH-EHHHHHH-SAGE!!!!!!!!!***

It's on prime real estate!!!!! It took A LOT of political maneuvering to get that done.

:)

Social statement.

One Who Was There....
 

Climbing on a bus @ midnight to be on site with of the Groundbreaking....$50

Getting grub @ Union Station watching the people go by...$10

• Calling TonyB. with updates on Bill Clinton contemplating 4 more years...
• W trying to figure out what type of crowd he is talking too...
• Watching Obama run for President without declaring it...
• Telling Rev. Jackson to tell his boys to drop a check on the MLK like the AKA's...
• Seeing all of the Dignitaries and regular folks "Turn the Dirt"....priceless!

One of the highlights of my nearly 25 years in game (24 years, 5 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes to be exact)

Excellent point. It always amazes me because AA always want the street in our community but once we have it, the street becomes the "bad" part of town.

NC had ANCA this past weekend. Brothers were leaving Saturday morning to make the trip to DC. After seeing the event from media, I too wish that I had attended.