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Posts tagged with "Martin Luther King"
Honoring Emil Kapaun should reflect his commitment to nonviolent
May. 22 | Obama presented the nephew of the Rev. Emil Kapaun with the Medal of Honor, the highest military award for bravery. Rev. Kapaun died at the age of 35 in 1951, after spending six months in captivity during the Korean War. President Obama...
Critics of Rosenbloom column skirt around statements by Sanger
May. 15 | Columnist Lucky Rosenbloom’s commentary [column of April 11] on abortion and its devastating effects on Black America is the dirty little secret Black activists, most Black clergy, Black scholars and, of course, the liberal White left...
Terror in Boston? Terror in America!
Apr. 24 | How fragile is our precarious democracy in the face of senseless violence? Two explosions exposed the fragile state of our precarious social contract at the Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013, as three were killed and 175 or so injured, some badly,...
Where are our leaders? What are our core values?
Mar. 27 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College — for any college, for that matter — to produce clever graduates, men fluent in speech and able to argue their way through; but rather...
The illusion of racial progress
Feb. 13 | By Dr. Luke Tripp Guest Commentator What appears to be racial progress in America is largely an illusion. Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored for his great contribution to the struggle for human rights and social justice in America. He was assassinated...
The struggle continues — Obama is not proof of a post-racial society
Feb. 6 | When one compares the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, which chronicled the problems that Black folks were experiencing in just about every walk of life at the time, and the misery index for Black folks today, one finds that the lot of...
SFJAZZ’s new home, Bobby Z’s 2nd benefit, D’Angelo’s new music
Jan. 30 | Congrats to SFJAZZ. After presenting its first concerts in San Francisco 30 years ago, today the nonprofit organization SFJAZZ has built a home and performance venue of its own. Its grand opening occurred on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January...
Is doll-hanging incident a result of ignorance or callousness?
Jan. 30 | Someone once said that “the problem with the past is it’s not quite past.” Ironically, the hanging of a Black doll and the dragging of it through school at Minneapolis Washburn was a reminder that the past is not quite past us in our...
Obama linking Selma to Stonewall divides Black community
Jan. 30 | President Barack Obama’s inaugural address was the most inclusive speech a president has ever given. It was delivered on the 27th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and the president honored King’s legacy when he eloquently spoke...
