Martin Luther King Jr.

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• Aretha At Her Peak, part 2

  
  SoulSummer.com- Catch the latest entertainment news, pictures, and videos of your favorite Soul artist and celebrities — Authority: 146
  By Mark Anthony Neal During those two nights in January of 1972, the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles was the site of something truly amazing. The song list from the first night of the live recording session for Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace album reveals the eclecticism that ...
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• Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my American Friends

  
  Sue's Daily Photography — Authority: 129
  We will speed the day when all of Gods children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ...Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, Im free at last. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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• Holiday Offerings from Atlanta Historic Homes over at Inside Access

  
  The Wren's Nest Blog — Authority: 119
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitutions’s intrepid “fun stuff” reporter Jamie Gumbrecht has rounded up profiles of historic homes in Atlanta just in time for the holidays. Bulloch Hall Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home Margaret Mitchell House Swan House Rhodes Hall The Wren’s Nest Fret not: ...
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• Afghanistan: What Obama Should Do Next and Why Your Opinion Matters

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 144
  As the President’s decisions are made while the conflict continues, it will be incumbent upon each of us to be advocates for the highest and best position – the movement toward a global policy of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 days ago

• Jill & Jasiri X on Afghanistan, Martin Luther King and Why We Should Leave

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 613
  The mainstream media is spreading the rumor that Obama will make a decision on Afghanistan after Thanksgiving. Jasiri X has cooked up a new hip hop-laced ballad about a resilient woman named Afghanistan who ain’t takin’ no mess and hasn’t for several millennia. The video starts off with some passionate words ...
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• News Analysis: Deal Will Turn a Los Angeles Hospital Private

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  The Martin Luther King Jr. hospital is entering a public-private partnership for more cost-effective operations.
  4 days ago

• Hospitals: New MLK Hospital Going Ahead, More Neighborhood Projects Planned

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 626
  The UC regents voted yesterday to help LA County reopen and operate a new Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital at the hospitals old site in Willowbrook--the building shut down two years ago and since then, the area has a major lack of medical services. The decision triggers a capital program to build new facilities ...
  6 days ago

• Christian Leaders Unite on Political Issues (abortion, gay marriage, stem-cell research)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way ...
  6 days ago

• Bernice King Just Started at SCLC. And Already Oversaw Its Latest Round of Homophobia

  
  Queerty — Authority: 734
  Well that was a let down. After taking the reigns of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bernice King — whose father Martin founded the organization — had the chance to turn a new leaf on the organizations, and her own, homophobia. In the most clear signal yet, shes not going to. CONTINUED » ...
  1 week ago

• Atlanta’s historic home tours: Martin Luther King Jr. home

  
  Inside Access — Authority: 139
  There are free, half-hour National Park Service-run tours of the Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home on Auburn Avenue every day. Nearby, the National Historic Site and King Center round out the tour experience. AJC file photo Yesterday’s historic home tour took us to Bulloch Hall in Roswell . Today, we’re ...
  1 week ago

• The Going Rogue Index

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 740
  Sarah Palin’s autobiography Going Rogue doesn’t have an index. Why? Well, I’m not exactly sure. But it sure makes finding gems in the text--such as the defense of that $150,000 clothing bill, the petty attacks on Katie Couric, and Palin-isms like “maverick” and “dang!”—a pretty tough slog. So, ...
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• Kennedys, King and Watergate, Oh My!

  
  Greenlee Gazette — Authority: 144
  Image from FreeWebs.com There have been countless theories, crazy and somewhat plausible, about exactly what was up in the sixties, with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Bobby Kennedy. Was there some kind of connection? And much of the aftermath, the suspects, the ...
  1 week ago

• China kinder to Obama than Bush?

  
  Changing China — Authority: 469
  How does one measure how U.S. President Barack Obama was received by the Chinese government? I like to read the tea leaves and decided one measure might be to compare the reception Obama got in comparison with that given his predecessors. For me, one indication is the most senior Chinese official greeting an ...
  1 week ago

• Nonviolence: 25 lessons from the history of a dangerous idea

  
  Tad DeLay — Authority: 411
  Mark Kurlansky’s magnum opus Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea has been on my reading list for two years now, but Barnes and Noble has continually thwarted me. In other news, I applied for my first real library card the other day.  Put those two things together, and I finally ...
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• Freedom Form No. 2 by Daniel Johnson

  
  Start Seeing Art — Authority: 108
  Created by Daniel Johnson in 1970, Freedom Form No. 2 is located in Martin Luther King Park in Minneapolis. The abstract sculpture is two perpendicular sheets of metal with curving cut outs where they would have intersected.
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• The History of Valentine’s Day

  
  Carrie and Danielle — Authority: 518
  Like many holidays we celebrate, we don’t really know how Valentine’s Day began. We know it’s a day to celebrate love, and we know that the consumer market loves its overpriced candy and flowers, but what was the original purpose of V-Day, and where did it begin? I was interested, so I took some time to find ...
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• Ann Donald on the Home and The Help

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 529
  Kalk Bay Books ‘ Ann Donald sees value for all South Africans in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help - winner of the Boeke Prize - a story of black and white domestic relationships: From the first page, the world around me ceased to exist - until after the sun had gone down 12 hours later. My first thought after ...
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• Council Call-in audio – 11/11/2009

  
  The AroundFortWayne Blog — Authority: 446
  Last night’s Council Call-in show featured Councilman Mitch Harper and his guest, Geoff Paddock, Executive Director of the Headwaters Park Alliance.
  2 weeks ago

• Courageous Leadership

  
  Dreamer + Realist — Authority: 118
  Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it ...
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• The People Speak College Tour: Boston University

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Editor’s Note: This post is by Antonia Lassar, a student at Boston University who attended The People Speak College tour event on her campus last week. To my right is a boy in the most vivid red denim shirt I have ever seen. (Confession: I have never actually seen a red denim shirt before, regardless of the ...
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