Trump's attack on diversity take center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally

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Trump's attack on diversity take center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally   Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people are expected to gather at the same site to honor and reflect on the historic event.   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/04/26/trumps-attack-on-diversity-take-center-stage-as-boston-remembers-1965-freedom-rally  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination

00:06and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people show up at the same site to honor

00:12and reflect on the historic event.

00:15The rally is taking place at the Boston Common near the site of a 20-foot high memorial to

00:20racial equity.

00:21We are coming together to say we are not done yet.

00:25We are not where we need to be.

00:28We are a much better society than the behavior that we're exhibiting right now.

00:33And the final thing is this kind of scenario is not sustainable.

00:38Dad would say we must learn non-violence or we may face non-existence.

00:43The original protest rally in 1965 brought the civil rights movement to the North East,

00:48a place King knew very well from his time earning a doctorate in theology from Boston University

00:53and serving as assistant minister at the city's 12th Baptist Church.

00:56Their narrative is that people who are not qualified are having an opportunity.

01:01But the fact of the matter is this whole country, and this is not about a collective guilt,

01:07by the way, it's about collective responsibility, this whole country is as prosperous as it is

01:13because for 250 years you had free labor, totally free labor.

01:19The Boston rally happened after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was won and signed by President Lyndon Johnson,

01:26and it was a month ahead of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed in August.

01:33THE CREDI ending

01:34CREDIT

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