God bless America! We should all have that benefit in equal measure across the NORAD, NATO, CUSMA region based on $ USD 70,000.00 which is about $ CAD 90,000.00. But, then now we want to know what to do with a Black girl who will not send the benefit to an American overseas when told; something about it is overseas such that she is divisive, making things difficult and causes separation in her tribal demarcating in a "them and us." She is an obstinate Tonanwanadan who lost her job.

 Sidney Poitier at the Lincoln Memorial: How a Hollywood Icon Turned His Stardom Into Civil Rights Power at the 1963 March on Washington

The photograph is almost too perfect.

Sidney Poitier, face composed and intent, stands at the base of the Lincoln Memorial beside his close friend Harry Belafonte and actor Charlton Heston. Behind them, Lincoln’s marble figure looms over the crowd, a reminder of an unfinished promise. It’s August 28, 1963, and more than 200,000 people have converged on Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Poitier is at the height of his stardom, already one of the most recognizable Black men on the planet. He is also, increasingly, something more: a public symbol of Black dignity and a quiet but committed activist who has decided that his presence — his body, his reputation, his celebrity — is a tool the civil rights movement can claim.

This is the story of how he got to that moment, what he did with it, and how the meaning of his presence on the Mall that day continues to evolve, especially in the years since his death in 2022.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/11/15/sidney-poitier-at-the-lincoln-memorial-how-a-hollywood-icon-turned-his-stardom-into-civil-rights-power-at-the-1963-march-on-washington/

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