Why Americans should be worried about state surveillance
As the Prism/NSA leaks story unfolds, many Americans are left with a cynical "are you surprised?" response that rather misses the point. Recent American history is full of stories of spies using...
View ArticleOn conservative attempts to co-opt MLK
Hamilton Nolan: "It all adds up to a simple formula: concede wholehearted support for the points that have already been won, while dismissing (as irrelevant, or unpatriotic, or immoral) the points that...
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LISTEN: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1964 conversation with Robert Penn Warren
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s soaring oration has come to define how many think of him, so it's interesting to hear Dr. King speaking conversationally in 1964 with Robert Penn Warren, almost in the...
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Martin Luther King, socialist: "capitalism has outlived its usefulness"
In the great tradition of political heroes, Martin Luther King's legacy has been sanitized and purged of its most radical and urgent notions, watered down to a kind of meek pacifism that omits his...
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Listen to this deep house mix of MLK, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" (1989)
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.
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JOHN WILCOCK: George Wallace, the KKK, and the 1965 Selma Freedom Marches
A book of John Wilcock comics is now available Important news: John Wilcock will soon celebrate his 90th birthday. Regrettably, John suffered a stroke in 2014, which has dissolved nearly all of his...
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Lesser-known Martin Luther King Jr. quotes celebrate his radical politics
Sick of people whitewashing Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, artist Daniel Rarela created this series featuring quotes from King's “Letter From A Birmingham Jail.” The accompanying images are both...
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Elizabeth Warren silenced by 100% of GOP Senate for reading Coretta Scott...
On the Senate floor tonight, an extraordinary event. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) led a vote in which 49 GOP Senators chose to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for reading aloud the words of...
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Listen: Deep house mix of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" (1989)
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.
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MLK: anti-capitalist activist
You've heard "I have a dream," but how about "Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children?" (more…)
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MLK on car ads
Ram used a sound clip from a Martin Luther King Jr. sermon, played over a montage of stereotypically patriotic imagery, as an ad for a truck. In response, Nathan Robinson took another quote...
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech:
View Article"Capitalism has outlived its usefulness" -Martin Luther King, Jr
"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started...
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Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech:
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FBI honors MLK Jr. Day by celebrating man they gaslit, surveilled, tried to...
The time is always right to do what is right, that's true. But the timing of this is a pretty ugly retcon—especially after a new trove of FBI files on Martin Luther King, Jr. were just released six...
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"Promissory Note" marries MLK's moving words with music and imagery
Filmmaker Jazeel Gayle took a key passage from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and transformed it into a powerful short film about Black Lives Matter. Jazeel says: This film is a tribute...
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Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech: monsieurgiron · Mr. Fingers – Can you feel it? (Martin Luther King mix)
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Listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "symphony of social justice"
On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and dozens of other activists were arrested after leading a protest to shine a national spotlight on the racist treatment of Black people in Birmingham,...
View ArticlePublic Enemy's By the Time I Get to Arizona
A few minutes late, but man, this is good stuff. YouTube – Public Enemy – By The Time I Get To Arizona (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) Previously: Free MP3: folk cover of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" – Boing...
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Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech: monsieurgiron · Mr. Fingers – Can you feel it? (Martin Luther King mix)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream," the deep house mix
From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech: monsieurgiron · Mr. Fingers – Can you feel it? (Martin Luther King mix)
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Watch Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and Peter, Paul, and Mary perform at the...
The Peter Stone Brown Archive YouTube channel recently posted this restored clip, "Bob Dylan goes Motown." It features two songs that Dylan performed for the Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute that was...
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