Ten For Today: Poverty
The 5th Dimension, Bobby Blue Bland, The Kinks, Antonio Castro, Ray Charles, 24-Carat Black, Alan Price, Redbone, Otis Clay, Newtown Neurotics
It’s January 4, and in his State of the Union address on this day in 1965, LBJ called for an "unconditional war on poverty in America." His proposed Great Society was a set of domestic programs aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Before it was dismantled by subsequent administrations, employing a death-by-a-1000-cuts strategy, thes…
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