March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote

Today we march. Live from the Lincoln Memorial, Friday, August 28, 2026. Sixty three years after 1963, we return to defend the vote.

I didn't realize until day of the event that there was going to be a March on Washington. Heard about it on the news.

Rev. Al Sharpton was keynote speaker. The focus of the march was voting & civil rights & economic justice.

Admittedly, I did not attend the march nor tune in to coverage. Only if they talked about reparations did I missed something.😁

Hopefully, they were able to attract some younger people too. 😎

It barely made the news.

But then again...........

Most people spend most of their time on the internet instead of watching tv or listening to the radio, so if you didn't actively LOOK for it....you could have easily missed it.

In some regards, things were better when society and technology was much simpler.

Everybody watched the same 3 or 4 television stations and unless you were in the government and had access to secret knowledge, everybody was on the same page with the information and what was going on.

Now people are living in their own little worlds.

Today's technology should make it easier to spread news.

No shortage of people on social media sites. Many of them have podcasts too.

I would imagine the march was well attended. Probably not a quarter million people like 1963.

The good news is because everything seems to get recorded nowadays, it should be easy to find videos from the march.

Maybe I'll check out the Cliffs Notes version of the event.😁😎

ProfD

Today's technology should make it easier to spread news.

It is......
The problem is much of the "news" is actually false.

More information doesn't necessarily equate to more facts.

Often times on the internet you have to dig through a ton of garbage just to find the facts of a given event.

No shortage of people on social media sites. Many of them have podcasts too.

I would imagine the march was well attended. Probably not a quarter million people like 1963.

They have it every year and typically talk about the same shit, so probably not even 10,000...lol.

Most people aren't in the mood for marching today.

They're in the mood for ACTION.

They have real problems that need real solutions, not a bunch of symbolism and motivational speeches or redundantly telling us what we need to do.

We know we need to become more politically active as a people...so who do we have to be active for?

We know the housing and job situations in our communities are shitty....so where is the plan to build better housing and provide better paying jobs?

The good news is because everything seems to get recorded nowadays, it should be easy to find videos from the march.

Maybe I'll check out the Cliffs Notes version of the event

Like my cousin used to tell me on one of my frequent ventures leaving Detroit to go down South or out West in search of greener pastures.

He'd sit back with a blunt in his hand and a grin on his face and say: "Aaight den. If you find something sweet....let a nigga know."

I'm not going to waste time looking for it.
I'd rather spend free time on a Sunday watching half naked African women, lol.
But if YOU find something out of that event worth even keeping space in somebody's mind...let me know, lol.

4 hours ago, ProfD said:

Today's technology should make it easier to spread news.

It could be, but the goal of technology is not to share valuable or useful information or to enlighten the public--the goal is to make money for the owners of the technology. If useful information happens to be shared that is great, but it is not the motivation. Truth is just as valuable as lies in the paradigm.

I did not know about this until just now. But you guys are interested in sharing information important to Black people.

Y'all still reject the notion that Rev. Al Sharptom is the MLK Jr. of today?

25 minutes ago, Troy said:

Y'all still reject the notion that Rev. Al Sharptom is the MLK Jr. of today?

It seems that as the Rev. Al Sharpton lost all that weight....he lost most of his charisma with it....lol.

He's not as popular with the community as he used to be.

Some say he's been compromised.
I'm not sure about that.
When I listen to his current speeches, he sounds just as bold and sharp as he did 30 and 40 years ago, but the times are different and he's operating on a different frequency than what's needed to reach the Black community today. Especially the youth.

8 hours ago, Troy said:

Y'all still reject the notion that Rev. Al Sharptom is the MLK Jr. of today?

IMO, Rev. Al Sharpton is definitely not the MLK Jr. of today.

7 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

It seems that as the Rev. Al Sharpton...but the times are different and he's operating on a different frequency than what's needed to reach the Black community today. Especially the youth.

Agreed.

Also IMO, the National Action Network les.ny Rev. Al is pimping civil rights in order to shakedown white supremacy.

9 hours ago, ProfD said:

IMO, Rev. Al Sharpton is definitely not the MLK Jr. of today.

Who comes closest then? You have to pick some Black leader?

Rev. Al's National Action Network (NAN), based in Harlem has more than 47 Chapters nationwide. He hosts a national TV show called Politics Nation and a nationally syndicated radio program "Keepin' It Real with Rev Al Sharpton." He advised sitting presidents. MLK could not have imagined such a large platform.

I really curious to hear which Black leader anyone would out ahead of Sharpton in 2026.

55 minutes ago, admin said:

Who comes closest then? You have to pick some Black leader?

IMO, there has been no Black leader of the magnitude & impact of Dr. MLK Jr. since he was assassinated.

Rev. Al Sharpton has done very well for himself using civil rights as a platform.

Otherwise, while there has been no shortage of Black spokespersons, no one has been a real leader on par with Dr. MLK Jr.😎

4 hours ago, ProfD said:

no shortage of Black spokespersons, no one has been a real leader on par with Dr. MLK Jr.

How are you judging "leadership?" If it is the number of streets, blvds, and avenues in you name, then MLK is untouchable.

But today, 2026, nearly 60 since MLK's murder, who comes closest to MLK? Prior to MLK we can clearly say Marcus Garvey. But today pick a leader or two. If you do you will have no choice but to land on Sharpton.

You may not like that answer. We may feel he was thrust upon us by "da man," or is "pimping civil rights in order to shakedown white supremacy" as you say, but in 2026 America, Reverend Al Sharpton is the Black America's leader.

13 minutes ago, admin said:

You may not like that answer. We may feel he was thrust upon us by "da man," or is "pimping civil rights in order to shakedown white supremacy" as you say, but in 2026 America, Reverend Al Sharpton is the Black America's leader.

You have every right to consider Rev. Al Sharpton a Black leader. I do not & definitely not on par on with Dr. MLK Jr. Not even close. 😎

Forget being on par with MLK. Is your position that we, as a people, are leaderless today?

4 minutes ago, admin said:

Forget being on par with MLK. Is your position that we, as a people, are leaderless today?

To answer your question succinctly, my position is that Black people are leaderless today.😎

I was inclined to agree with ProfD but thought it would be fashionably nuanced to agree with him IN SPIRIT by suggesting the very opposite.
Because I believe we've both come to the same conclusion on the state of leadership in the AfroAmerican community today......


It's not that we're leaderless, I believe the problem is we have TOO MANY leaders....lol.
And ofcourse the Honorable Neely Fuller Jr. told us that there is a difference between an actual leader and a mere "spokesperson".

Minister Farrakhan is A leader.
Bishop Nathanyel of the Hebrew Israelites is A leader.
Tariq Nasheed is A leader.
And ofcourse the thousands of pastors, bishops, prophets, apostles, and ministers who stand up and lecture their congregations every Sunday morning are leaders.

They all have a bunch of Black people under them ready to take action at their every beck and call.
But the agendas are mixed and in some cases even oppose eachother.


As far as Al Sharpton........

I would consider Al Sharpton more of a spokesperson than a leader.
Like Jesse Jackson was.
Good for bringing attention to an issue but not much on actually mobilizing SUSTAINED action in the community.
Ben Crump....another spokesperson.

A leader LEADS.
Which means he's going somewhere and is mobilizing you to follow them there.
As opposed to just pointing in that direction and encouraging you to go there.

@Troy @ProfD @Pioneer1 the key is what separate black leaders in the past from today.

Sharpton is a leader, Obama is a leader, but all of these people are employees. The key to Colonel Tye to MAlcolm X is that for most of the 250 years of usa history and most of the 500 years since the white european colonies in the modernly called american continent, black leaders were unpaid financially disconnected advocates. They never made money, didn't have any money to make, and always had a hill to climb whether violently or nonviolently with whites, which usually meant they died in terms of agenda, unhappy.

Post 1960s, the Black advocates were killed or stymied and the Black elected official came to be the primary leadership in the black populace of the usa today. Modernity has more black, female, asian, latino, native american elected officials and yet, blacks, women, latinos, native americans don't have advocacy in the government.

Sequentially, the styles are very different. Malcolm side MLK jr side Fannie Lu Maher were the last era of a majority of black leaders as advocates for black folk.

No money in the advocacy, no payment in the position. Pure what do black people need. And whether it was through violence like Nat Turner or demographic identity like Marcus Garvey or all the various other movements through the centuries, the advocates always were thinking about black betterment.

Sharpton had or has a show. It doesn't make him corrupt but it is different.

If you are going to be an advocate for black people, you can't be employed by whites or financed by whites of employed or financed by the usa government which primary agenda is the betterment of the white populace in the usa. Regardless of what non white fiscal wealth or opportunities arise. And all those who are financed by whites, ala a thurgood marshall/Sharpton/Obama/david dinkins have impotencies. But all those who are in the system ala Adam clayton powell, can't advocate for black in the system . Adam Clayton powell fr, great acts in harlem happened before he was an elected official. Once an elected official he was impotent, but the reason isn't negative, simply structural.

Government in the usa is controlled by lobbies. What is the point? Lobbies pay to get the laws they want. Who has the money but whites.

Black success tends to be financially opposed by most lobbies , but the reason is even, cause most lobbies are white and their white financier is more than likely making money through suffering in the black populace.

So, I restate all to say, No black leader today is like black leaders in the past, but that is because the past demanded/allowed for advocacy by Blacks leaders as a primary tool. The primary tool for black leadership in the usa today is bureaucratic activity. Today, a black leader can want advocacy but usually operates within the bureaucracy so they never have a black agenda in their role. And I think the black populace in the usa, especially the descended of enslaved, wants their cake and eat it too.

And the reason is many Black DOSers in the USA want the Black community to grow and thrive while they also want the USA to be this land of individuals. and that is a very hard thing to achieve. And the reason it is hard isn't negatives but truth.

What the Native American needs, even for those that do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others in the usa. I rephrase, Native Americans should be given large tracts of land back all over the usa plus tons of back owed money. But that can't happen unless everyone else takes a financial and communal loss.

What Black Descended of Enslaved needs, even if they do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others. I rephrase, Black DOSers need what they have been denied by white violence constantly and that is their own governing space, along side like the native american , a ton of back pay.

What Whites want, not need, in the usa is to the detriment of all others, but is historically the sole point of why the usa was created. I rephrase, The usa wasn't created for everyone to benefit or for each individual to have, the USA was created for a set of white europeans descended from various fiscal poor of continental europe , to fiscally succeed no matter how.

What modern immigrants want, they don't need as well, is to the detriment of all others and potentially all humanity. I rephrase, what they want is a country that will allow a stranger to come in and have opportunities or advantages said stranger doesn't have where they come from, and to embrace their children as part of the country for no other reason than being a human being.

These four paths do not work together. Thus all the populaces in the usa are being poorl led today. None of the leaders can satisfy all four paths through the bureaucracy of the usa government

33 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

Sharpton is a leader, Obama is a leader, but all of these people are employees.

...black leaders were unpaid financially disconnected advocates. They never made money, didn't have any money to make, and always had a hill to climb whether violently or nonviolently with whites, which usually meant they died in terms of agenda, unhappy.

If you are going to be an advocate for black people, you can't be employed by whites or financed by whites of employed or financed by the usa government which primary agenda is the betterment of the white populace in the usa.

These four paths do not work together. Thus all the populaces in the usa are being poorl led today. None of the leaders can satisfy all four paths through the bureaucracy of the usa government

Whole post was excellent but these quoted sections stood out to me.😎