The nation celebrates and wants equalty and opportunity finished for generations to come.

By Steve Hendrix, David Nakamura and Ashley Halsey III 

Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 4:13 PM

 The President's Speech:

...Taking the lectern, (click here) the nation’s first African American president paid homage to King’s legacy, saying that “because they kept marching, America changed.” But Obama warned that the struggle for equality is not yet complete, adding that “the arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.”

“To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency,” Obama said. He cited as setbacks the Supreme Court’s decision in June to strike key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the high rates of African American incarceration....