DreamWorks Moving on MLK Project

Staff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2010 DreamWorks Studios is moving forward with its planned Martin Luther King Jr. feature film after the project suffered a setback last year because of a dispute between members of the late civil rights leader's family. On Tuesday, the studio announced that it had hired screenwriter Ron Harwood, who penned the Oscar-winning script for "The Pianist," to write the screenplay for the MLK movie. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Got MLK?

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Wish List

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Where Have All the Ramparts Gone?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 23, 2009 Peter Richardson's new book about the groundbreaking Ramparts magazine says the rag changed America. Truthdig arts and culture editor Kasia Anderson asks the author and former Ramparts Editor Robert Scheer, Truthdig's editor-in-chief, why the magazine's impact isn't better remembered and what will take its place.Why was the unruly life of Ramparts magazine so short and what, if anything, will take its place? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

So Much for the Promised Land

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 3, 2009 The most prominent faces of color, such as President Obama or Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr., mask an insidious new racism that, in essence, tells blacks they have enough, that progress has been made and that it is up to them to take advantage of what society offers them.The new racism tells blacks that progress has been made and it's their fault if they don't succeed. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Supreme Court Surprises With Civil Rights Decision

Staff / Truthdig Jun 23, 2009 The Supreme Court has spared the 1965 Voting Rights Act, agreeing by an 8-1 margin to leave a ruling on its more controversial parts for another day -- and perhaps another court. The near-unanimous narrow decision came as a surprise, with justices apparently retreating from earlier divisions that led some court watchers to predict the legislation's demise. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Attorney General: On Race, America Is ‘a Nation of Cowards’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 19, 2009 Speaking at a Justice Department event in honor of Black History Month, the first black attorney general, appointed by the first black president, acknowledged that America has made progress but warned that "in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." His full remarks, after the jump. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Blago Compares Himself to Gandhi, MLK and Mandela

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2009 A confession: We've been avoiding the news about embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose impeachment trial begins Monday. There are too many storm clouds on the horizon to waste time on this man's circus. But we couldn't help but pause to marvel at the chutzpah of the governor, who dropped this bombshell on Sunday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Long Train Ride

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 21, 2009 Barack Obama rode to Washington, D.C., for his presidential inauguration on a whistle-stop tour, which was compared to the train ride taken by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The train holds a deeper symbolism, though, that undergirds Obama's historic ascension to the White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Thousands Join Obamas for Day of Service

Staff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2009 It looks like Barack Obama's national community service day was a big hit. Reports of thousands of volunteers are appearing in newspaper pages from New York to Philadelphia to San Francisco. Did you participate in your own community? Let us know in the comments. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Still Dreaming After All These Years

Staff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2009 Truthdig normally celebrates Martin Luther King Day by remembering the more complex, more subversive King -- the man who railed against America as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" and "a society gone mad on war." But a day before America inaugurates its first black president, we have other things on our mind. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Flag Worship

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 Leave it to the Grand Old Party to go from Martin Luther King to 9/11 in less than three seconds. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )