{"id":27184,"date":"2015-09-18T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=27184"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:19:16","slug":"september-18-2015-naacp-journey-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/09\/18\/september-18-2015-naacp-journey-justice\/27184\/","title":{"rendered":" America&#8217;s Journey for Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 1st, the NAACP and a broad coalition of social justice, religious, and civil rights groups began a 1,000 mile march to call attention to the issues of voting rights, economic inequality, and racial discrimination. We spoke with NAACP president Cornell Brooks, who led the march, and Rabbi Bruce Lustig of the Washington Hebrew Congregation after the marchers arrived in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are trying to convey to the folks that the right to vote is a civic sacrament, and the voting booth is in fact the altar of our democracy. And for us to allow voter disenfranchisement and suppression to go on is a desecration of both,&#8221; says NAACP president Cornell Brooks, who led the America&#8217;s Journey for Justice march to Washington, D.C. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/09\/18\/september-18-2015-naacp-journey-justice\/27184\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":27193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[17704,8864,9406],"class_list":["post-27184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-african-americans","tag-naacp","tag-voters","topics-race","topics-us-domestic-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>America&#039;s Journey for Justice | September 18, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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