Motown Records’ 1963 audio document of the March on Washington, featuring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, has been released digitally for the first time.
Recorded on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 23rd, 1963, The Great March on Washington also contains speeches by civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph, Uaw president Walter Reuther, NAACP’s Roy Wilkins and March organizer Whitney Young.
The Great March on Washington, which the label rush-released in October 1963, also boasts Motown artist Liz Lands’ performance of...
Recorded on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 23rd, 1963, The Great March on Washington also contains speeches by civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph, Uaw president Walter Reuther, NAACP’s Roy Wilkins and March organizer Whitney Young.
The Great March on Washington, which the label rush-released in October 1963, also boasts Motown artist Liz Lands’ performance of...
- 3/6/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Aisha Hinds ("Under The Dome"), Spencer Garrett ("Blood And Oil"), Todd Weeks ("The Maiden Heist") and Mo McRae ("Wild") have been cast opposite Bryan Cranston in HBO's film adaptation of the Tony-winning Robert Schenkkan play "All The Way".
Jay Roach helms and Steven Spielberg executive produces the film which covers Lyndon Baines Johnson (Cranston) from the moment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and through a turbulent first year as U.S. President that included leveraging his power to pass Civil Rights legislation in Congress up to his landslide re-election victory in 1964.
Hinds will play Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Garrett is labor union leader Walter Reuther, Weeks is Johnson's longtime aide Walter Jenkins, and McRae is civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.
Melissa Leo, Anthony Mackie and Bradley Whitford also star and filming begins next month.
Source: Deadline...
Jay Roach helms and Steven Spielberg executive produces the film which covers Lyndon Baines Johnson (Cranston) from the moment of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and through a turbulent first year as U.S. President that included leveraging his power to pass Civil Rights legislation in Congress up to his landslide re-election victory in 1964.
Hinds will play Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party leader Fannie Lou Hamer, Garrett is labor union leader Walter Reuther, Weeks is Johnson's longtime aide Walter Jenkins, and McRae is civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.
Melissa Leo, Anthony Mackie and Bradley Whitford also star and filming begins next month.
Source: Deadline...
- 7/24/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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