by lindaoppenheim | Jan 17, 2019 | interview
In the days leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jaime L of the New York Times interviews Bryan Stevenson about incarceration, American history, and Dr. King. ” If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2018 | Podcast
Fifty years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, Charles McKinney tells The Takeaway host Duarte Geraldino how Dr. King’s image has been sanitized to move him away from the political fighter that he was to someone more palatable to the larger...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 1, 2018 | Podcast
On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Radio Atlantic’s Vann Newkirk narrates a program that examines the reality of the man and his work compared to the myth that has evolved about him. A panel consisting of Newkirk, Matt...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 18, 2018 | Events
Keith Henley, an actor with the American Historical Theatre of Philadelphia, will perform at the Plainsboro Public Library (9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro) on Saturday, January 20 at 2 pm. Henley will use a sermon, “What Is Man?” that Dr. King delivered...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 15, 2018 | Article
Commemorating the 50th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor notes that “[t]his anniversary offers new opportunities to engage King’s political thought, including his anti-capitalism and his repeated call for larger...