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MLK was assassinated today, 40 years ago. He was a mere 39-years-old. He had gone to Memphis to support black garbage collectors— ie, the sanitary public works employees who had been on strike for a month, the work conditions they faced every day unbelievably horrific, men getting crushed in compactors that they were forced to [...]
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MLK Day and we’re trolling the web looking for inspirational nuggets from the great man and they abound and so we can’t help but laugh at the whole flap over MLK’s role in getting civil rights legislation passed. “It took a president to get it done,” said Hillary, and yes it took a kind of [...]
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Filmmaker Kevin Morrison recently completed a short work to mark the 40th anniversary of a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at New York’s Riverside church on April 4, 1967. The original speech, given during the height of American involvement in Vietnam, is a summation of the strong antiwar views that [...]
He opposed war because it went against everything he believed about how to live life. That’s why the speeches are so damn good!
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