Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream" speech, presented so eloquently during the March on Washington, has gone largely unfulfilled as we look at America 50 years later. To be sure, “the shackles of segregation" in the South that King fought to destroy have been mostly broken, but economically we are still two nations. Far too many African Americans still live on what King called that day, “a lonely island of poverty in the midst of ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his 1966 bill to ban housing discrimination die in Congress, he considered it one of his most devastating political defeats. The relentless negotiator had managed to force through the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction – banning discrimination in schools, at the polls, in employment, on buses and trains, and in public accommodations. But the area of housing was too noxious. Johnson could not twist enough arms ...

The real minimum wage was worth $10.56 in 1968 but had dropped to $ 7.25 by 2012.