(upbeat music) - [Announcer] Encore Sports Medicine.
(gentle music) - [Boy] My grandpa was always telling me about it.
- [Girl] But the civil rights thing happened like a million years ago.
- [Boy] Still, he thought it was important that I know what it was like.
- [Girl] So we followed the Civil Rights Trail to Alabama.
We saw Dr. King's church.
- [Boy] The bridge in Selma, the church in Birmingham, and I finally knew what he was talking about. Read More...
What started as a peaceful demonstration late Thursday through early Friday in the District’s Meridian Hill and Adams Morgan neighborhoods turned into a clash between demonstrators and police.
Police said 41 people were arrested on charges including rioting, arson, assault on a police officer and vandalism. Of the 41 arrested, prosecutors dismissed charges against all but a handful of people, including two who were charged with assaulting a police officer. Read More...
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a giant of American letters, but thanks to his insistence on “self-reliance,” his writing has become a go-to reference for those who endorse a particular brand of American individualism, one grounded in capitalism and selfishness. For instance, an insurance company once called him “the voice of the American dream.” But according to the editor and critic James Marcus, he was not a spokesman but “the first great American writer. Read More...