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Martin Luther King Speaks! Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
“One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.
Cohen and Solomon: The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV
It’s become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King’s birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about “the slain civil rights leader.” By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon January 17, 2014 (January 4, 1995) FAIR.org The remarkable thing about this annual review of King’s life is that several years […]
FactTank: On MLK Day, racial equality found wanting
45% Fewer than half of Americans said their country made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the past half century. BY GEORGE GAO January 17, 2014 PewResearch FactTank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is widely viewed as a national hero for racial equality and justice, and Americans honored his legacy with the unveiling […]
Video> “Martin Luther King Would Have Occupied Wall Street”
“Martin Luther King Would Have Occupied Wall Street” Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Jan 17, 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King ? if he were alive today ? would have embraced the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Homes movement and spoken out against the current exploitative economic system, members of Occupy the Hood articulated during a spirited MLK Day march […]
Mary Turck> Marv Davidov: 1931-2012 | Twin Cities Daily Planet
Marv Davidov: 1931-2012 BY MARY TURCK, NEWS DAY January 14, 2012 Twin Cities Daily Planet Not all the good die young. Some are tough old birds, speaking out and singing loudly all the way to the end. Peace and justice advocate Marv Davidov was one of the good ones. He died on January 14, 80 […]
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