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Tag: Martin Luther King Jr

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May 19 marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Martin Luther King Jr.’s plea for white Americans to recognize the rights and humanity of their black fellow citizens. We reprint his letter in full.

Posted on May 18, 2013 READ MORE

Kelly Branan

Santa Clausifying Martin Luther King Jr.

By David Sirota —

Every year, right around the time between Martin Luther King Day and the beginning of Black History Month, the effort to distort Dr. King’s life and legacy seems to intensify

Posted on Feb 1, 2013 READ MORE

Sex Amid the Stacks

The covering over a painting of a slave performing fellatio on a white man has been removed at the Newark Public Library after much controversy; foreign universities are struggling to compete with elite American ones in the online education market; meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the National Counterterrorism Center has been given massive amounts of authority to surveil Americans via datasets. These discoveries and more after the jump.

Posted on Jan 23, 2013 READ MORE

MLK Remembered

David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —

Posted on Jan 23, 2013 READ MORE

King Me

By Mr. Fish —

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Inauguration

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Inauguration

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Dreams Come True

Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —

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Tape of MLK Interview Turns Up in an Attic

“ ... If one is truly nonviolent, that person has a loving spirit; he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he, he loves the opponent,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says in a newly discovered tape of an interview made nearly three years before his “I Have a Dream” speech.