In the spring of 1975, Muhammad Ali was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University. Toward the end of his speech, an audience member shouted, “Give us a poem!” Ali's response was all of two words: “Me, We.”

The social constructs of race, ethnicity, gender, class, nationality, religion, political ideology and sexual orientation are merely labels that have become so intertwined and embedded in our minds that we fail to see the underlining truth. We are all the same.

Solidarity between African Americans and Native Americans grew with the Black Power movement of the 1970s, whose goals were closer to the nationalism espoused by American Indian Movement activists. Pictured here (left to right) are Muhammad Ali, Buffy St. Marie, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Harold Smith, Stevie Wonder, Marlon Brando, Max Gail, Dick Gregory, Richie Havens, and David Amram at a concert at the end of the Longest Walk, a 3,600-mile protest march from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in the name of Native rights.

St Paul's Chapel NY, in the shadow of the towers

August 1974
Tightrope artist Phillippe Petit performs an unauthorized walk between the Twin Towers on April 7.

The first tenants moved included Morgan Stanley; Verizon Communication; Thacher, Proffitt & Wood; New York Stock Exchange; Keefe, Bruyette & Woods; Fiduciary Trust Company International; and Dow Jones and Company. That is these buildings were temples to what we value most - money...

Dewey Ambrosino