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March 5, 2008
By BARTHOLOMEW SULLIVAN
CommercialAppeal.com
WASHINGTON - The Gathering will be gathering in Memphis.
Civil Rights activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte returns to Memphis for the 40th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination with The Gathering for Justice, the group he founded to help a younger generation set a civil rights agenda for the 21st century.
The Gathering for Justice, begun in 2005 to address the problem of incarcerated youth, will hold meetings and workshops at LeMoyne-Owen College on April 5 and 6.
Belafonte said the genesis of the idea for The Gathering was the 2005 televised handcuffing of a St. Petersburg, Fla., kindergartner for what authorities called “unruly behavior.”
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For more information on Tides Center project The Gathering for Justice, see www.thegatheringforjustice.org.
