{"id":157,"date":"2011-11-03T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:04:41","slug":"a-monument-fit-for-a-king-bus-trip-photo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/a-monument-fit-for-a-king-bus-trip-photo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monument Fit for a King Bus Trip Photo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS HERE!<\/a><\/strong>I thoroughly enjoyed the trip to Washington, DC for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication<\/strong>!\u00a0 Being joined by Beaver County\u2019s NAACP, Pittsburgh\u2019s B-PEP and other community activists and organizations from Pittsburgh\u00a0to as far as Ohio\u00a0reminded me of a movement that was not yet born into but now have the opportunity to be a part of.\u00a0 One lady on one of the two sold out buses, from the Beaver County branch\u00a0NAACP actually walked with Dr. King on the March on Washington<\/strong> and she spoke about her experience on the bus.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Everyone was very friendly and well behaved and I met some great people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John Ayers<\/strong> of the AKA\u2019s<\/strong> the trip organizer\u00a0and Leanne Spearman<\/strong> hung out with me and two other\u00a0members of\u00a0the Christian Sistah\u2019s With Voices for Obama<\/em><\/strong> group Yvette<\/strong> Robinson & Tori Walker<\/strong> who worked on Barack Obama\u2019s\u00a0campaign in 2008 and will be working on his 2012 campaign.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A new member of CSWV Rometa Pollard<\/strong> and her family were handed tickets to go on the White House Fall Garden Tour<\/strong> while at the event.\u00a0 They really enjoyed touring the First Family\u2019s Garden!<\/div>\n
Listening to the event\u2019s speakers and singers on such a beautiful day in a crowd of more than fifty thousand people was more than awe inspiring and reminiscent of CSWV\u2019s trip to Barack\u2019s Inauguration!\u00a0 Listening to Rev. Al Sharpton<\/strong> coin a new phrase \u201cIt\u2019s not about Obama\u2026it\u2019s about our Mommas\u201d<\/em> referring to Social Security,\u00a0was so empowering.\u00a0 Then as we anticipated our President of the United States of America <\/strong>speaking,\u00a0the First Family<\/strong> and The King Family<\/strong> dramatically walked along the Memorial site viewing the words of our great leader of the past and their father.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine how overwhelmed the King family must have felt to finally see their father and our champion honored in the Country\u2019s Capitol.<\/div>\n
It was just a beautiful day for this memorial dedication.\u00a0 It couldn\u2019t have been rescheduled on a more beautiful morning and afternoon following the disappointment that Hurricane Irene brought that destroyed the original unveiling date back in August.\u00a0 Surely God was shinning down on this day of celebration and honor of one of his greatest modern day disciples.<\/div>\n
I always enjoy when we as a people can come together to do anything meaningful and good.\u00a0 Watching the people from all over the country and beyond set up camp across the street from the Memorial to just have family time, break bread and enjoy the music that continued on in an after concert with Ledisi <\/strong>singing her rendition of Louis Armstrong\u2019s \u201cA Wonderul World\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and then Stevie Wonder<\/strong> trying to upstage her (which was impossible)\u00a0redoing the song and singing others.\u00a0 With those joyful sounds filling the air and such a beautiful sun shinning and people all around smiling\u2026how could you not stop, look around you and say \u201cwhat a wonderful world?\u201d\u00a0 So wonderful that even Frederick Douglas<\/strong> had to come all the way from the grave\u00a0to see THIS!\u00a0 YES, his name is Frederick Douglas\u2026believe me I asked!<\/div>\n
And of course as\u00a0Fashion Editor<\/strong> form some fashions caught my eye,\u00a0but this particular\u00a0season it was all about Martin, Malcolm &\u00a0Barack!\u00a0 Long denim patch work skirts patterned<\/var> after the old days of slavery where women wore long skirts and threads patching together what good rags they could find.\u00a0 At the bottom of these skirts were pictures of three great leaders, \u00a0two from our past and one\u00a0from our present and prayerfully our future.<\/div>\n
When we approached the actual Memorial \u201cOut of the Mountains of Despair\u201d<\/strong> it was beyond intimidating as Dr. King\u2019s statue towered over us all.\u00a0 There were so many people there taking pictures, children wanting to also feel the pride and joy they saw on their parents and grandparents faces, climbed onto the granite base like children sitting at the feet of an inspiring\u00a0giant!\u00a0 We were later joined by other Pittsburgh Chapter AKA\u2019s.\u00a0 The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity<\/strong> was responsible for this great monument that took\u00a0ten years to bring to fruition.<\/div>\n
We\u00a0ended our\u00a0visit at\u00a0the Lincoln Memorial<\/strong> where we stood in the exact spot where Dr. King gave his \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d<\/strong> Speech in 1963.\u00a0 God Bless you Dr. King for all you did for us and what you lead us through and to.\u00a0 Let us all remember the sacrifices he made so that we too could have a dream and fulfill it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve come a long way with his civil rights activism, but we have to continue on with that same amount of selflessness, faith, integrity and drive to see to it that our children and grandchildren can dream too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS HERE!I thoroughly enjoyed the trip to Washington, DC for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication!\u00a0 Being joined by Beaver County\u2019s NAACP, Pittsburgh\u2019s B-PEP and other community activists and organizations from Pittsburgh\u00a0to as far as Ohio\u00a0reminded me of a movement that was not yet born into but now have the opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul-pitt-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/photovideo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}