Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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Beacon Press editor Gayatri Patnaik talks about the latest books in The King Legacy Series.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a new, altered version. The author of Inheriting the Trade writes about why he thinks this is a bad idea.
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David Chura looks at our criminal justice system’s attitude — and our society’s attitude — towards prison rape, and prisoners in general.
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Charles Euchner discusses the recent revelation that an acclaimed photographer of the civil rights movement was an FBI informant.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and peace demonstrations in the 1960s and the new millennium; in Mongolia, Cuba, and other developing nations; and since…
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Charles Euchner looks at the dueling marches in Washington, both being held on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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American history is an arc toward freedom, dignity and inclusiveness for all. That will include Muslims, sooner or later.
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In this excerpt from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the March on Washington, the leaders of the March determine how to acknowledge the death of a leader in the movement for black civil rights.
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The King Institute shared with our blog scans of Martin Luther King’s program from the 1963 March on Washington.
