Martin Luther King
Remembering Jesse Jackson
The legendary civil rights leader recently passed away. Who remembers him and who doesn’t? I heard him speak in person and will never forget the experience. Like so many, I was saddened by the passing of Jesse Jackson a few days ago, and have been thinking about images from his prime, in the turbulent sixties…
The Ali Legacy
He told you in the sixties he wasn’t going to Vietnam to help the white man continue to oppress people of color around the world. You saw where that led. The United States killed a million people in Southeast Asia and maimed more than that and lost fifty-seven thousand American lives. For what? Martin Luther…
Update Martin Luther King Speech
a million die by 1966 day i deliver “beyond vietnam a time to break silence” declaring poverty inevitable in “society gone mad on war” and still i see america attacks to feed “giant triplets of racism materialism and militarism” Editorial Note: This is revised and reduced from the original post in January 2012.