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 [...]
Posted by uspostWorldWednesday, December 1st, 2010
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 [...]
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
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 – [...]
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 – [...]