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I heard the most disturbing thing on the Tavis Smiley show a couple of weekends ago, during one of the many memorializations on the the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. Dorothy Cotton, the educational director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and its highest-ranking woman, said during meetings the men, including [...]
At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, James Bevel organized Freedom Rides. He was with MLK during the “I Have a Dream Speech,” and also with him the night he was killed. At a family reunion in 2004, his daughters began recounting childhood memories of their father, which included memories of [...] Part 1: Part 2: How does a man who was so deeply unpopular when he was alive become a universally beloved and toothless Christ figure? The holiday and the statues, for starters. [...] |
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