Manning Marable, Historian and Social Critic, Dies at 60

Manning Marable

Manning Marable, an influential historian of the black experience in the United States and the author of a forthcoming biography of Malcolm X, died Friday in New York. Manning Marable was 60. His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She said he had suffered for [...]

Rosa Parks: Today Google honors the 55th Anniversary of Rosa Parks

On this day 55 years ago, a woman named Rosa Parks kick-started the modern civil rights movement when the then-42-year-old refused to leave her seat in the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She’d been working all day at the Montgomery Fair department store and felt like she shouldn’t have to give up [...]

Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally

Thousands gathered at the National Mall in Washington D.C. for Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally. The event was held on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Featured in this video are Janne Vandusen- Alexandria, VA. Don Niver- NY Eli Moser- Myersville, MD

Post Office Holidays 2010, Independence Day

List of Post Office Holidays 2010: USPS Holidays * January 1, 2010 – New Year’s Day * January 18, 2010 – Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday * February 15, 2010 – Presidents Day * May 31, 2010 – Memorial Day * July 5, 2010 – Independence Day (Fourth of July) * September 6, 2010 – [...]

Post Office Hours

2010 Postal Holidays Friday, January 1 – New Year’s Day Monday, January 18 – Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday Monday, February 15 – Washington’s Birthday (President’s Day) Monday, May 31 – Memorial Day Monday, July 5 – Independence Day Monday, September 6 – Labor Day Monday, October 11 – Columbus Day Thursday, November 11 – [...]

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