The United States Justice Department is challenging Arizona’s recent anti-immigrant law.

You can watch a short MSNBC video about the challenge. It also provides a transcript of the audio. That’s a very nice feature, but it’s the first MSNBC video I’ve seen that provides that transcript. I wonder if they will start doing it more often?

The Associated Press also has a text report on the challenge.

I’m adding both to The Best Sites To Learn About Arizona’s New Immigration Law.

“Oral History Of The U.S. House Of Representatives” appears to be a surprisingly engaging and accessible site about….the U.S. House of Representatives.

It has tons of multimedia features, lesson plans, the videos have accessible transcripts and an interactive timeline.

Robben Island Soccer League is the title of a New York Times slideshow about the soccer league apartheid opponents organized at the infamous South African prison.

I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup.

This weekend, USA.gov unveiled a new website design that makes federal information and services much more accessible.

I’m not sure if it’s accessible to English Language Learners, but it sure is a lot easier for me to find information.

It’s worth a visit.

Here are some final additions to The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July:

Fourth Of July By The Numbers is another accessible infographic.

Independence Day Around The World is an interactive map.

ESL Holiday Lessons has a lesson on the holiday specifically for English Language Learners.

Independence Day is a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.

The Fourth On Coney Island is another Wall Street Journal slideshow.

Fourth Of July Celebrations is a slideshow from MSNBC.

America Throws Itself a Birthday Party is an MSNBC video.

CNN has several videos:

President Obama Speaks About The Fourth Of July

Fireworks Light Up The Capitol

Fireworks Over The Big Apple

Martin Luther King gave a sermon on July 4, 1965 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. His topic was “The American Dream.”

You can read his entire sermon at the Martin Luther King Papers at Stanford. In fact, you can hear it, as well, though his spoken sermon is somewhat different than the written transcript.

Here is a lengthy excerpt, though I’d encourage you to read or listen to it in its entirety:

This is why we must join the war against poverty (Yes, sir) and believe in the dignity of all work. What makes a job menial? I’m tired of this stuff about menial labor. What makes it menial is that we don’t pay folk anything. (Yes, sir) Give somebody a job and pay them some money so they can live and educate their children and buy a home and have the basic necessities of life. And no matter what the job is it takes on dignity.

Now there’s another thing that we must never forget. If we are going to make the American dream a reality, (Yes) we are challenged to work in an action program to get rid of the last vestiges of segregation and discrimination. This problem isn’t going to solve itself, however much [word inaudible] people tell us this. However much the Uncle Toms and Nervous Nellies in the Negro communities tell us this, this problem isn’t just going to work itself out. (No, sir) History is the long story of the fact (Yes) that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges without strong resistance, and they seldom do it voluntarily. And so if the American dream is to be a reality, we must work to make it a reality and realize the urgency of the moment.

Frederick Douglass also gave a famous speech on a July 4th, titled “What Is The Slave To The 4th of July?”

I’m adding these resources to The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July.

Gulf Oil Spill by the Numbers is a slideshow from Newsweek with some useful and accessible information.

I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About The Gulf Oil Spill.

Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The World Cup:

Five World Cup Fads We Love is a slideshow from TIME.

China’s English News has a special World Cup page with lots of multimedia features.

Economic and Sales Productivity During The World Cup is an infographic.

Diego Maradona’s Quest For The World Cup is a TIME slideshow.

Comparing This Recession to Previous Ones: Job Changes is a New York Times graphic that very clearly shows we’re not doing so great right now.

I’m adding the link to The Best Sites To Learn About The Recession.