(THE LIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW with REGGIE BROWN THAT WAS POSTED ABOVE  BY FOX TV EVENING NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC  HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED BY THE STATION.)

“WE’RE PROUD OF COUSIN REG ON THE INTERVIEW HE GAVE REPRESENTING MANY OF US AT THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. NATIONAL MEMORIAL UNVEILING YESTERDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011.  REG COULD HAVE BEEN THE INTERVIEWER-HE WAS SO GREAT!  AND THIS IS SUCH A HISTORIC MOMENT WHERE A MONUMENT HAS BEEN UNVEILED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR A NON PRESIDENT (THE M.L. KING MEMORIAL SITS BETWEEN MEMORIALS FOR  JEFFERSON AND LINCOLN) AND THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST NATIONAL MEMORIAL  ON THE MALL IN WHICH AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HAS BEEN SO HONORED.  DR. KING WAS A PEACEFUL CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO MADE CHANGES IN THE LIVES OF MANY.” Comment by Mary Herbert

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Photographs below by Reggie Brown

Respectfully Submitted by Reggie Brown, of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Wilson, Lake, Herbert Family Reunion Circle
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We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears labored without wages. They made cotton ‘king’. And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. . . . Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho’ we may be, our destiny is tied up with America’s destiny.
— “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963

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