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Category: History
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Is Occupy Wall Street a prophetic? Dan McKanan talks about the tradition of American radical movements.
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Lynching victims were not metaphors. They were real people who suffered unimaginably.
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a courageous leader of the civil rights movement, died today at the age of 89. You can read his obituary at the New York Times or at the Washington Post. In Rev. Shuttlesworth’s memory, we share the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: There was one threat to the reign of white supremacy in…
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Four days after the attacks of 9/11, a chance encounter with firefighters on their way to the World Trade Center site inspired Joan Murray to write a poem.
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“Until then, the Quran for me was a book of personal spiritual guidance, a convening symbol for my religious community. But after 9/11, I viewed it as a balm for my country’s pain,”
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A new book looks at how the JFK administration changed the face of American football.
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A new book about one of the great African-American religious thinkers.
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“The only real revolutionary, people say, is a man who has nothing to lose. There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose.” Dr. King’s words still ring true today.
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People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. In this excerpt from All Labor Has Dignity, he ties together the War in Vietnam with the problems facing the labor movement.
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“I thought of twenty million black people who dreamed that some day they might be able to cross the Red Sea of injustice and find their way to the promised land of integration and freedom. There was no more room for doubt.”
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