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• in TV
  Soundtrack for a Revolution Comes to PBS, May 9
  The story of the American Civil Rights Movement told through its powerful music: SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION.
  by missbobetier / on May 5, 2011
• in Politics
  Behind the Dream:The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
  MLK and JFK both had to deal with questions over who actually wrote their speeches.
  by fcetier / on Feb 6, 2011
• in Politics
  Stereotypes, Profiling and Prejudice; A Prelude to Black History Month
  “Have we achieved MLK’s dream? Still a work in progress. Better than 1963? Yes. Fulfilled/achieved/reached? No.” - Dorian McCoy, Ph.D. University of Vermont
  by fcetier / on Jan 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “martin luther king jr”

 

• Making America A Little More Equal

  
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  Leaders within the LGBT community were invited to the White House yesterday to kick-off Pride month with a reception hosted by President Obama. Introducing the President were 9 year old twins, Zea and Luna, who wrote a letter to President Obama earlier this year asking him to support same-sex marriage. They explained ...
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• Letter from a Hong Kong hotel suite

  
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  Cross-posted on The Obama Diary . America’s history is written in blood and sacrifice. We have two holidays—Memorial Day and Veterans Day—which commemorate the sacrifices made by our military. But, we have only two national martyrs whom we acknowledge with holidays: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, ...
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• Ghosts of Dallas: MLK Community Center, 1982

  
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  “Elsie Faye Heggins at the podium during the celebration that renames Forest Avenue Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.,” June 1982. Share your own Ghosts of Dallas . Original photo: From the collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library Photo: Kyle Pennington See ...
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• Housing discrimination persists in U.S. in more subtle ways, HUD report says

  
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  Housing discrimination remains a national phenomenon, according to a government report released Tuesday that found that although blatant acts of racial prejudice in the selling, buying and renting of homes have been declining in the United States, more subtle forms of housing bias “stubbornly persist.” Read full ...
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• Time to Fight the Epidemic of Online Hate

  
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  A Palestinian mother encourages her child to kill Jews. Several women’s advocates recently put the spotlight on misogynistic postings to Facebook promoting and celebrating violent attacks on women. As a result of their pressure on advertisers and others, Facebook eventually responded — admitting it could do ...
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• Alicia Keys, Israel and Civil Rights

  
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  The analogy between African-Americans in the era of segregation and Palestinians today is a false one. By Richard Friedman Birmingham, Ala. Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has lately garnered more attention for her unhinged political views than for her writing. She has compared Fidel Castro ...
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• J.C. Watts on GOP minority outreach: Ill believe it when I see it

  
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  CHARLOTTE The two groups that met this past weekend at the Charlotte Convention Center on separate floors -- were pretty easy to tell apart. The guy with the Green Lantern symbol on his T-shirt and the woman with silver streaks in her hair were probably coming from the HeroesCon comics convention. The decidedly more ...
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• The Continuing Scientific Relevance Of SciFi

  
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  Did you know that the U.S. military culture served as a major inspiration for the show Star Trek? Well, it was. Read on to learn why some of science fictions most famous characters are actually based on our countrys military history. Read More
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• Jesse Jackson Jr. Should Spend 4 Years in Prison - Federal Prosecutors

  
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  Federal prosecutors Friday recommended a four-year prison term for former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who has admitted using $750,000 in campaign funds to pay his living expenses and to splurge on luxury items like furs and jewelry.
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• 45 years after death, recalling Robert Kennedy’s funeral train

  
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  All these years later, John Malone still remembers the last words of Robert F. Kennedy’s last speech: “ . . . and now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!” There was hope in that, momentum. John had finished his junior year at Seton Hall and was at his parents’ home, in Elizabeth, N.J., ...
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• WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL WASHINGTON, DC

  
  David Huebner - United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa — Authority: 104
  Washington is one of my favorite cities, a perfect blend of majestic but personal, deeply historical but cutting-edge contemporary, kinetic but contemplative, sometimes gridlocked but relentlessly in motion, meaningful and substantive but often exuberantly joyful. My new colleague Elizabeth Evans, who will be ...
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• Feisty Civil Rights Activist Will Campbell Dies at 88

  
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  The Rev. Will D. Campbell, a Baptist minister and early white civil rights activist, as well as best-selling writer and folksy raconteur, died Monday in Nashville, Tenn. He was 88. With a fiercely independent streak and sometimes prickly personality, Campbell used his powerful way with words to explore American ...
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• Remembering Will Campbell

  
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  [Will Campbell] confused his critics – first the Right and then the Left – by insisting that his soul did not belong to any team – racial, political, religious, cultural. It belonged to the Kingdom of God. There was only  one  team, and that was the family of ALL God’s children everywhere.  Compassion ...
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• WE the PEOPLE are Bradley Manning

  
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  After three years of incarceration by the United States Government, Bradley Manning is being tried for 22 crimes against our country and "Aiding the Enemy" this week.  In 2010, the young soldier was arrested for leaking documents to the now infamous organization WikiLeaks whose founder, Julian Assange currently ...
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• Where no kiss has gone before

  
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  By Tim Allen I grew up with Star Trek . When I was 10, I helped my mom put together an intricate scale model of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701, if you’re curious). I knew that LeVar Burton could tell me about a warp core before I knew that he would read me a children’s book, and I knew that Klingon was a ...
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• Honoring Our Civil Rights Heroes

  
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  Fifty years ago, America was in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. Countless men and women demonstrated, protested, sacrificed, and bled for their right to be treated equally. In the last two weeks, we remembered a few of these heroes at the White House. Visit with Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers ...
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• Why Black Liberals Need to Reclaim The Black Agenda From The Black Church

  
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  creflodollar.jpg by Yvette Carnell The Black Church’s central role in the African American Freedom Movement, is a myth. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “himself lamented the ‘apathy of the Negro ministers ’ and their interpretation of Christianity,” writes the ...
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• Forest Whitaker as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" He once played a role of an evil man in the film, The Last King of Scotland, while portraying Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. This was an Oscar-winning role for Forest Whitaker. Now, he may be set to portray another world-known figure, but this time, a man of peace in ...
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• Martin Luther King, Jr. tree

  
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  This scarlet oak tree was planted in 1984 in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Mrs. King asked each of the states to memorialize her husband. Des Moines citizens, Almo Hawkins and Wesley Chapman purchased the marker for the tree. The tree is at the Iowa State Capitol Complex as part of the Monuments and Memorials Tour.
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• Forest Whitaker Has A Dream Of Playing Martin Luther King Jr. In The Movie Memphis!!!

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Run, Forrest, Run!!!! JK, wrong person wrong context. Couldn’t help it! LOLz!! The Forest with only one R, Forest Whitaker, may have a new part soon…and a pretty revolutionary part at that!! It’s been rumored that Whitaker may star as Martin Luther King Jr. ...
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