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Rants & Raves

...MCGD: All of the above RANT TO ALL THE black organizations that continue to segregate the black community after civil rights leaders fought so hard to end segregation. IF DR. AZZIZ AND HIS troops at MCG or whatever it is called now will airbrush...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-20/rants-raves
Police continue to investigate death of Athens banker

...s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Anointed Word Evangelistic Tabernacle Church in Lithonia to mark the slain civil rights leader's birthday. Last year was no different. After delivering the 2012 speech, Parker drove to Athens to pick up...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-01-15/who-killed-athens-bank
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: Celebrating a legacy of 13 years

...Gandhi. Even as highly revered as Dr. King was, the civil rights leader had a role model ? a positive adult role model...don't have to win a Nobel Peace Prize or be a modern civil rights leader ? you can create your own legacy.How many times...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2013-01-20/rev-martin-luthe
Inauguration day is day for King, too

...swearing-in onto the national holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, and inaugural planners have taken pains to acknowledge...forefront undermines the work of King and other civil rights leaders whose efforts made his presidency possible."Dr...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-01-21/inauguration-day-day-king-too
Ed Koch, former NY mayor, dies

...war with developer Donald Trump ("piggy") and mayoral successor Rudolph Giuliani ("nasty man"), lambasted civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and once reduced the head of the City Council to tears."I'm not the type to get ulcers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/national/2013-02-01/ed-koch-former-ny-mayor-di
Illness cancels Lowery's Augusta appearance

Civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery is ill and will not be speaking in Augusta on Tuesday night, the Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2013-01-14/illness-cancels-lowerys-
Haley says Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud of South Carolina's progress

...female and first minority governor, said at the Columbia Urban League's annual breakfast recognizing the slain civil rights leader."I have been changed, all of us have been changed, and he would be so proud of South Carolina," she said...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-01-15/haley-says-martin-luther-king
King event speaker calls for more progress on civil rights

...said Cleaver, who was called on to deliver the keynote address in the place of the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader often called "the dean of the civil rights movement."Lowery had been scheduled to speak but fell ill. Organizers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2013-01-15/king-event-speaker-calls
Faith Digest

...Obama's inauguration ceremony Monday.Ponsford said the work he did involved reattaching leather to the slain civil rights leader's traveling Bible.King celebrationPolitical and social activist Tom Turnipseed will speak at the 11 a.m...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2013-01-18/faith-digest
Obama sworn in today in private ceremony

...King Jr. The president's public swearing-in on Monday coincides with the national holiday marking the fallen civil rights leader's birthday, and Obama has invoked King's memory throughout the lead-up to the inauguration. The Rev. Jonathan...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-01-20/obama-sworn-today-privat