On May 17, 1957, in the burgeoning phase of the modern civil-rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed

a demonstration in Washington, D.C., calling for congressional action

on a slate of laws to end racial segregation and assure African

Americans equal rights. The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom drew

demonstrators largely from churches, religious groups and people

sympathetic to the cause, and was an early indication of the pivotal

role King would play in at once galvanizing support and momentum for the

movement and challenging the power structure’s resistance to the

movement’s demands.

On

April 5, 1968, the nation and the world were coping with the full

weight of the news that King was assassinated previous night, cut down

on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where he had

gone to organize support for African American sanitation workers open

strike for equal pay and better working conditions. King was 39 years

old.

A

decade earlier, in the nation’s capital, King had taken up the mantle

and made the clarion call for freedom, justice and equality. He also

warned that the protracted struggle would entail battles with sellout

leaders, treacherous liberals and the political currency of the hard-won

right to vote.

Here is the full clip from today's show:

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a demonstration in Washington, D.C., calling for congressional action

on a slate of laws to end racial segregation and assure African

Americans equal rights.

Bestowed

“front runner” status by a sycophantic media establishment, political

consultants and a well-oiled public-relations machine even before the

running, Hillary Clinton is the very picture of a self-fulfilling

prophecy, on her way, they tell us, to clinching the Democratic Party’s

nomination and, after that, resident of the United States. It will all

have been her just reward, they say. But Leid Stories asks, “Is Hillary

Clinton that good, or are we that crazy?”

Yes, it’s “Free Your Mind Friday”

on Leid Stories, and you’re cordially invited to opine, prognosticate,

analyze, dissect, debate, challenge, report, differ—you know, sound off.

We just need to know about what, and you need to know that it’s

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No matter how things turn out, Election 2016 will be remembered as a

defining moment in U.S. history. For, this is the year of The

Kakistocrats.

Leid Stories discusses the imminent reality of government by the worst.

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Just

one week ahead of the state-wide primary in Wisconsin, the three

remaining Republican candidates vying for their party’s nomination will

be featured on a CNN Town Hall tonight at 8 p.m. ET. The event will be

moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

With

real estate mogul Donald Trump leading with 736 delegates, Texas

Senator Ted Cruz (463) and Ohio Governor John Kasich (143) are looking

to make an impact and cover some ground if they have any hope of

stopping the Trump train’s momentum. The campaign trail has turned ugly

as of late, with personal attacks and the involvement of candidates’

wives brought into the fold; the Town Hall also comes on the same day

that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker offered his endorsement to Ted

Cruz.

President Barack Obama’s historical and diplomatic slip ups on his recent trip to Cuba, duly noted and discussed on Leid Stories, are the subject of an essay by retired President Fidel Castro. Published yesterday in Granma, Castro schooled “Brother Obama” on a particular U.S.-Cuba history the Harvard grad should know.

Hillary Clinton is warning voters about a pending disaster—a Donald Trump appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Leid Stories unmasks Clinton’s supreme deception.

Landslide victories over Hillary Clinton in Saturday’s

Democratic primaries in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington have given

“momentum” to Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the Vermont senator says. But

where Sanders needs momentum most—in winning 2,383 of party’s delegates

to clinch the nomination—he’s way behind Clinton and, worse, showing

signs that his promised political revolution inevitably will be a

devolution of standard party politics.

Leid Stories says Sanderistas should prepare for a sellout.

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And now, Argentina.

President Obama yesterday added Argentina to his foreign-policy foray into the

region, having first spending three days in Cuba to seal his commitment to

normalize relations with the Communist state after 57 years of hostilities that

reached the brink of war.

Listeners continue with

their assessment of the significance of Obama’s Cuba visit and direct appeal to

its government and people and, with Argentina added to his itinerary, what they

make of the president’s hemispheric foreign-policy-fix-it tour.

Following

yesterday’s overview and analysis by historian Gerald Horne of

President Barack Obama’s historic trip to Cuba to cement a bilateral

agreement to work toward normalizing relations, Leid Stories’ listeners

decode the president’s speech to the Cuban people that capped his

three-day visit there.

President

Barack Obama today caps his historic three-day visit to Cuba with a

speech delineating his version of a working relationship with the

Communist state, now that the United States has agreed to cease

hostilities initiated in 1959.

Dr. Gerald Horne, John

J. and Rebecca Moores chair of history and African American studies at

the University of Houston and frequent analyst of world affairs on Leid

Stories, discusses Obama’s visit and its implications.

Horne, who also teaches diplomatic history, is the author of more than 30 books (including Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow) and more than 100 scholarly papers that focus on struggles against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and racism.