Subversive Influence (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
On Friday we stopped by The King Center in Atlanta, and stood for a moment by the gravesite of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. The center was closed when we arrived late in the afternoon, but we walked around the grounds of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site , saw the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church , and my eldest daughter and I walked along the Civil Rights Walk...
Lady Bunny Blog (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
I hope the screening will include the film in which Sylvester, an original Cockette, plays Coretta Scott King. Quite convincingly! The Cockettes are Coming!! An Extravaganza to Benefit Faerie Camp Destiny presented by the Northeast Radical Faeries and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Bazaar, Refreshments and Films from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Performances at 8 p.m. At Theater for the New City, 155 First...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Egmont USA announced that Walter Dean Myers, winner of two Newbery Honors and five Coretta Scott King Awards, will have two books on their Fall 2009 launch list. First is an historical novel. The second...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Ryan Lizza on Bill Clinton: When Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign was launched, in January, 2007, her supporters feared that Bill would overshadow her, as he had when they both spoke at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, a year earlier....
Slideroll, Latest Slideshows (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
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Love B. Scott (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
““Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” - Coretta Scott King
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
On 4/4/08 Maya Angelou celebrated her 80th birthday. Coincidentally, to make the law of 4s even more interesting: Angelou’s birth date coincides with the anniversary of King’s assassination in 1968. For years she didn’t celebrate her birthday. She and King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, would “meet or talk or send each other [...]
Sadly, No! (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Here are the RedState guys, with the ritual King-was-a-conservative argument that we tend hear from them on certain anniversaries — and whenever they aren’t calling Coretta Scott King a communist and condemning her funeral, and so forth: On the 40th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. […] I’m proud to be a conservative, because [...]
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
"There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr." (Thanks to Jamie.)...
orgtheory.net (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Fabio Apparently not an April Fool’s day prank, I’ve recently read that Antioch College is up for sale. $12M. Check out the UPI news story here. Yes, *the* Antioch College, that graduated folks likes Coretta Scott King and Clifford Geertz. I wasn’t terribly surprised. Antioch, though respected, has been on a down hill slide for decades, [...]
Webloggin (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
If you’ve got a few million lying around, have I got a deal for you: Antioch College, the little liberal Ohio school that has fallen on hard times, is for sale for $12.2 million, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The 156-year-old private college — which counts civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, writer Rod Serling, actor Cliff Robertson [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Antioch College, the little liberal Ohio school that has fallen on hard times, is for sale for $12.2 million, a spokeswoman said Sunday.The 156-year-old private college -- which counts civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, writer Rod Serling, actor Cliff Robertson and evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould among its long list of notable graduates -- was put up for sale after its parent organization,...
Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
The Dayton International Peace Museum in collaboration with the Coretta Scott King Center and SCLC will sponsor "MLK MountainTop: Surge to the Summit," a series of events on April 4-5 celebrating the legacy and memorializing the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.
Mombian (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
I posted this quote from Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., last year at this time, but I think it bears repeating. Mrs. King was speaking at Lambda Legal's 25th Anniversary Luncheon in 1998: As Martin once said, ‘We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny… an inescapable network of [...]
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Filed under: More Than Words Black Voices Blogs : Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy. He was a freedom fighter who knew and understood the power of words. Likewise, this is also a day to remember the work and determination of his wife, Coretta Scott King.But what's most... Read more
