Not long ago, I saw and heard (on television) the anguished yet determined report of a mother whose soldier-son was killed in a far-off ambush in Afghanistan. The news media,… read more →
‘Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.’ SAN DIEGO, June 17, 2020: Martin Luther King Jr. included this cogent declaration within his… read more →
Like anybody, I have endured periods of grief and have been affected with depression and yet informed by the bittersweet wisdom. Death is grief, divorce is grief; losing a job… read more →
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was looking to get more black attorneys active in the civil rights movement. Louis Stokes, born of very modest means in Cleveland, became a lawyer… read more →
We were all in the same church this Sunday morning CHARLESTON, SC, June 21–Like a lot of people around the nation, I simply felt the need to be here on… read more →
Salem, Va., 1/19/2015—Serving here at Roanoke College as visiting lecturer for the MLK Holiday, it occurs to me that there is a discomfiting gap between our impression of King and… read more →
If I expected it to be comfortable to watch and contemplate and evaluate Ava DuVernay’s artistic triumph as director and un-credited screenwriter of Selma, then I devalued the deeply nuanced—and… read more →
Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers. By Ben Kamin. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2014. Reviewed by David Miller, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department… read more →
By Ben Kamin JULY 16, 2014 The latest round of bombings, rocket attacks, airstrikes — sparked in part by the abductions and killings of three Israeli teenagers and a… read more →
