by Ben Kamin | Dec 28, 2019 | news
December 2019, excerpted from the book. 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 is lamentation; coping with disease is mortal...
by Ben Kamin | Aug 21, 2015 | news
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 for the NAACP and went on to one of the most illustrious careers in the history of the US...
by Ben Kamin | Jun 23, 2015 | news
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 this Sunday with the good people of “Mother Emanuel”—The African Methodist Episcopalian Church. Not everyone...
by Ben Kamin | Jan 19, 2015 | news
[responsive][/responsive] 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 the actuality of the man. Martin Luther King Jr. would have...
by Ben Kamin | Jan 12, 2015 | news
[responsive][/responsive] 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 brave—realization of this unexpectedly brooding...
by Ben Kamin | Jan 10, 2015 | news
[responsive][/responsive] 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 of History, University of...
by Ben Kamin | Jan 7, 2015 | news
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 Palestinian teen — make hope for peace seem as impossible as these outrages against innocents...
