For the time, it was an incredible thing to gather high-profile minds together to discuss the issues of racism, segregation and the civil rights movement. Can you imagine how electric everything felt during the March on Washington?? It's so great to see the brilliant James Baldwin there sharing his powerful words. There's an ugly, untold chapter of the movement and the way LGBT voices were often pushed out of the spotlight into the margins. He really should've been allowed to speak at the march. Would've been so amazing to have powerful women like Rosa Parks or Dr. Dorothy Height also sitting at the table and joining the discussion. It was still a great moment and a touchstone to remember and be inspired by. There's so much work to be done.
- Click for a great segment of an interview with Malcolm X on an old CBS news interview show. He speaks about the reality of Jews, Christians and Muslims all believing in the same god and a powerful statement about equating the violation of civil rights as a violation of human rights: http://youtu.be/QW-Wf9D6Wew
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