Posted 6/22/12 3:35 pm EST by Becca Frucht in Animals!!!, Election 2012, politics
Photo: President Obama and Bo. (Getty Images)
When Barack Obama promised Sasha and Malia that they could bring a puppy to their news digs in DC, the nation went bonkers trying to figure out which breed would be dropping deuces on the South Lawn. Months of pooch predictions ended when late Senator Ted Kennedy gifted the girls Bo, an adorbs (and hypoallergenic!) Portuguese Water Dog.
Posted 8/29/11 5:20 pm EST by Caroline Walker in Events, politics
Photo: John F. Kennedy Meets with Organizers of "March on Washington" (JFK Library)
On Aug. 28, 1963--two years to the date after JFK saw off his very first group of Peace Corps volunteers--an estimated quarter of a million people gathered in D.C. for the historic March on Washington. There, MLK shared his dream, and support for President Kennedy's civil rights bill gathered the momentum it would need to pass the following year. Lesson learned? There's safety in numbers.
Posted 6/29/11 1:51 pm EST by Katie Leavitt in religion, Social media, Tech
Photo: Pope Benedict XVI lanches his new website. (news.va/Flickr)
We know that Twitter is great for spreading the word, but now that the Pope is tweeting it may be used to spread The Word. On Wednesday (June 28) he sent his first message via iPad saying, “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI."
Posted 6/22/11 7:51 pm EST by MTV Act in politics, Resources
Photo: President John F Kennedy in the White House with leaders of the civil rights 'March on Washington' (right to left) Roy Wilkins (1910-1981), Walter Reuther (1907-1970), Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), John F Kennedy, A Philip Randolph, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, John Lewis, Martin Luther King and Whitney Young. (Getty Images)
On this day 48 years ago, President John F. Kennedy proposed legislation that redefined civil rights in America. This proposal--which protected citizens from discrimination regardless of their race, religion, gender or national origin--laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posted 6/10/11 12:00 pm EST by Caroline Walker in Events, politics
Photo: John F Kennedy, 35th president of the USA, making a speech. (Central Press/Getty Images)
On June 10, 1963, then President John F. Kennedy opened his commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C., with bold intentions: "I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived," he said, "yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace."
Posted 5/25/11 10:00 am EST by Caroline Walker in Events, politics, Resources, Tech
Photo: US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gives a speech on the nation's space effort before a special session of Congress in Washington on May 25, 1961, announcing the goal of sending an American safely to the moon before the end of the decade. (AFP/Getty Images)
On this day (May 25) in 1962, President John F. Kennedy made a proposal to a joint session of Congress: send a man to the moon and return him safely to Earth. In short, he asked permission to change the world.
Photo: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy stands on a platform for his inauguration as 35th President on the east front of the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1961. (L-R) His parents, Rose and Joseph Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson accompany him on the platform. (Getty Images)
With multiple natural disasters, global civil rights violations and America's involvement in two wars to worry about, wouldn't it be nice to hit up one of the great leaders from our history books for advice from time to time? Well, Act is about to do just that. For the next few months, we'll address some of today's most pressing issues by asking: What would JFK do?
