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Presidents’ Day: it’s about the sales, man Alas, “Presidents’ Day” has become just another jingoistic way to induce Americans to shop for cars and mattresses. And this is one distortion or, in this case, commercialization of history that has nothing to do with race matters. Instead, this one stems from TV commercials now heralding and defining this… Read more.
It seems we’re observing this MLK Day in a time warp. Because America today looks so much like the Jim Crow America MLK spent his life fighting to change. Observing MLK Day in Jim Crow 2.0 America America is on a schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of MLK’s famous dream. On the one hand, America elected the first Black man as… Read more.
It is common knowledge that Martin Luther King Jr was a womanizer. He even rivaled John F. Kennedy in this respect. Of course, JFK was a president, not a preacher. But I am the son of a preacher man. So I have standing to put MLK’s womanizing into perspective. As it happens, I did over… Read more.
It was poignant enough when President Obama declared last year that the racially profiled and murdered Trayvon Martin could have been his son. But this poignancy increased exponentially when he declared the following yesterday – during a remarkably personal and heartfelt reflection on the Zimmerman verdict and the legacy of racism that gave rise to… Read more.
Taylor Branch is the critically acclaimed biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). At Canaan’s Edge is the third volume of his MLK trilogy. But it’s generating hype for portraying MLK as a womanizer more than a civil rights leader. Jon Meacham is Newsweek’s eminent historian. On Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, he recommended… Read more.
