Oprah Winfrey may rule out a 2020 run to end President Donald Trump’s reign of terror over this country, but Cory Booker might not. In Atlanta Saturday, the U.S. senator from New Jersey was a thunderous presence at the King Center’s annual Salute to Greatness Awards Gala, where he was the main honoree.
In November, President Donald Trump’s administration released declassified FBI documents on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. But the release also included a batch of Martin Luther King Jr. documents filled with allegations of “abnormal” sexual behavior and of being a “slow thinker” and a “Marxist” (pdf).
My first real experience with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. happened in 1980, just 12 years after his tragic assassination in Memphis, Tenn. I was a 14-year-old freshman at Loyola High School, a prestigious Jesuit all-boys school in Los Angeles built on the philosophy that rigorous academic training would…
In Memphis, Tenn., 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers braved the bitter cold to engage in a revolutionary 65-day action to defend their right to personhood. These men struggled against the noose of white supremacy to proclaim their dignity. They stood, shoulder to shoulder, armed with picket signs and perseverance,…
In Northern Virginia, racists are commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, too—by spreading Ku Klux Klan flyers attacking the slain civil rights leader.
Two Oklahoma State University students decided that the best way to celebrate not having classes because of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was to paint their faces black.
A Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Miami went awry after a shooting left eight people injured, WSVN reports.
Whenever a black person diverges from the path of respectability and voices an opinion contrary to the mainstream narrative, the keepers of the status quo will quickly shout them down with the same, recognizable refrain. Sometimes it sounds so familiar, one might think the people who sit atop America’s totem pole…
On Nov. 5, 2016, Joshua Beal was in Chicago for his cousin’s funeral and, while driving back from the burial, was gunned down by an off-duty Chicago police officer. Black Lives Matter Chicago was attending a birthday celebration in honor of the late Rekia Boyd, who was killed by Chicago Police Officer Dante Servin in…
The city of Biloxi got serious flak last night when it announced on its Twitter account that city offices would be closed Monday in “observance of Great Americans Day.”
