Prince Charles and Camilla visit the US and tour monuments

#princecharles #presidentobama #joebiden #royalvisitusa Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, are on a four-day tour to the United States and were shown around the towering monuments to Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln before heading to the former home of George Washington.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 19 March 2015.
For a start, the Royal couple visited famous monuments in Washington DC. At the Martin Luther King Memorial, they were joined by two civil rights leaders, the Rev Jesse Jackson and Georgia congressman John Lewis. They had organized the famous Selma march in 1965.
Prince Charles, the 66-year-old heir to the British throne accompanied by the duchess then toured George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia – he had last visited it in 1970. Charles and Camilla also greeted students and teachers from a high school in Virginia.
They were greeted by schoolchildren and a lone piper and, laid a wreath on the grave of the man who, more than anyone else, ensured Americans would not be the prince's future subjects. Other visits included the National Archives, which holds the US constitution, the Declaration of Independence and a copy of the English Magna Carta.
The Royal Couple would also go to the Oval Office where they would have informal talks with US President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Subsequently, Charles and Camilla would proceed to Louisville, Kentucky, to tour an African-American cultural center which celebrates the life of the city's most famous son, boxer Muhammad Ali.
Among his itinerary is a meeting with faith leaders where he would give a speech at the cathedral in Louisville. It may be recalled that Prince Charles had last met the president in May 2011, a few days after the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton.
The Prince is no stranger to the US because this visit would be his 20th official visit spanning five decades.

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The black-white divide in America - Ferguson police officer who shot dead a black teenager resigns

It was another shocking incident of black-white divide that America witnessed four months back when a white police officer Darren Wilson shot dead a black teenager 18-year-old Michael Brown. It is hard to believe that this can happen in a country where the ‘n**r’ word is taboo and where Martin Luther King lived and Barack Obama rules.
The incident had similarities with that of another white George Zimmerman shooting dead an unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.
As per latest information, Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed unarmed Michael Brown, has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department – he took this decision nearly four months after the confrontation. The incident evoked sharp reactions and led to protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Incidentally, the officer had been on administrative leave since the shooting on Aug. 9 and his decision was conveyed by one of his attorneys who added that the resignation was with immediate effective.
It may be recalled that a grand jury had spent more than three months reviewing evidence in the case before declining in November to issue charges against Wilson who had told jurors that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and, therefore, reached for his gun.
Of course, the U.S. Justice Department is still conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate probe of police department practices.
Following the shooting, Officer Wilson had gone into hiding and had not made any public statements but broke his silence only after the decision of the grand jury.
Incidentally, Wilson had a clean record and a few months before the shooting, he had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drug case.