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Sharpton, King III
To Lead King March in Memphis, Tennessee

     The Rev. Al Sharpton, preparing to lead a historic “recommitment march” on the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. next week, says Blacks are still in the wilderness.
     “When you do a comparative analysis of the Children of Israel who had gotten out of bondage but had not gotten into the promised land, you will see that part of the problem was that they were not empowered in the land where they were, but they were also plagued by their own behavior,” Sharpton said.

  “We have crossed the red sea of segregation, public accommodations and voting rights,” he continues. “But, we are still oppressed by a

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   combination of what the Pharoahs have done and the fact that some of us have succumbed to false values and oppression…Compounding our struggle are Black on Black crime, the killing, drug use, the glorification of Gangsta Rap,” he says.
      A 1:00 p.m. pre-march rally will be held at the Memphis City Hall in Memphis, Tennessee with the Recommitment March to the Lorraine Motel beginning at 3:30 p.m. A Memorial Program at the Lorraine Hotel/Civil Rights Museum will be held at 5 p.m., all on April 4. The march will be led by Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. (Story By Hazel Trice, NNPA Editor).

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