By Sarah: Maid of Albion Related: Mandela and the Church Street Massacre The Mandela Myth The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever black racists, or indeed most black people, together with the majority of, white cringe infested, white liberals, list the great names from history, they invariably include the standard troika in their top three, or if they are really trying to be inclusive, within...
By Sarah: Maid of Albion Whenever black racists, or indeed most black people, together with the majority of, white cringe infested, white liberals, list the great names from history, they invariably include the standard troika in their top three, or if they are really trying to be inclusive, within their top five. Those inevitable names are Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and of course the sainted...
David DeLuz David DeLuz has been chosen president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Urban League by the organization's board of directors. James Shelby announced earlier this year that he would retire after 16 years as the group's president and chief executive officer. DeLuz, who was president of the Sacramento branch of the NAACP from 2002 to 2005, said he was excited to get to work and honored to...
David DeLuz has been chosen president and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Urban League by the organization's board of directors. James Shelby announced earlier this year that he would retire after 16 years as president and chief executive officer of the League. DeLuz, who was president of the Sacramento branch of the NAACP from 2002 to 2005, said that he was excited to get to work and honored to follow...
I'm working on a theory, not yet totally formulated, that goes like this: John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the United States, nibbled around the edges in dealing with the civil rights of black people. His heart I believe was always in the right place, but he needed to be pushed by the civil rights community, notably Martin Luther King Jr, culminating in the March on Washington, August...
This discussion is about the recent over turn of Judge Sotomayor’s New Haven firefighter case, and the over complication that has become of Martin Luther King’s Idea of a color blind society. Discrimination Rant 6/30/09
Sure, old buildings have plenty of supporters sticking up for their preservation and landmark rights, but what about coordinates of where historic events took place? The NY Times takes a look at 39-year-old amateur historian, and Columbia grad, Andrew Carroll's project to preserve and mark those sites. While his mission will take him to all 50 states, there are plenty of places here in NYC. Did you...
EDITORIAL: Sotomayor reversed again Martin Luther King can rest easy. His dream is being protected by the Supreme Court - against and over the opinion of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The high court's landmark decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the New Haven, Conn., firefighters case, is a dramatic stride toward the cherished goal of achieving a colorblind society. In Ricci, the court...
By Manzoor Chandio Published in Sindh Watch in June 2009 Why should we take sides and condemn atrocities wherever they are being committed, with a conviction that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”? Decades ago, during civil rights movement, Dr Martin Luther King took this stand against racial discrimination in the United States. It would be no exaggeration to say that...
To say I'm a angry at some of my trans peers for their comments on white, gay men in the diary Aravosis Needs To Issue His Own Apology To Trans People Before Citing TGs Regarding Fed LGBT Issues is an understatement. How does one take a diary about one famous blogger's comments on trans people and turn it into a thread where white gay men are attacked with a broad brush? Especially with the diversity...
For all of the love Pointy was receiving from Jim, there was still the pain of knowing that what he had heard about Christmas was untrue. Bloodstained balcony of Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr on-line banking In my post from a few days ago, I wrote, “One of my sources told [...]
We all have a few of them. Those "where-were-you-when" moments that simultaneously help define generations and span generational differences. Our parents and grandparents may recall where they were when FDR died or when they heard that Kennedy — John or Bobby — was assassinated. Or when they got news of Martin Luther King's assassination. Or Elvis' death. I remember hearing about...
Footsteps echo across the nation from days past. It was the spring of 1965, and the start of a five-day Freedom March began, focused on civil rights and segregation. Dr. Martin Luther King and the Freedom Marchers brought awareness to their cause as they flooded the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Thousands [...]
Plato does not speak ill of the dead.However, she did raise an eyebrow at this comparison of Michael Jackson with:- Gandhi- Martin Luther King- JFK...not to mention John Lennon, civil rights... Political scandal, fun and cuddly animals here...
New York is the first stage of the travelling exhibition organized by the City of Sitges on the occasion of 80th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King. The mayor of Sitges, Jordi Baijet said that "it is a coincidence that the exhibition comes now, one day after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first black president in U.S. history, which gives "an added value" to the event. After New
Barack Obama has closed the Democratic convention in Denver with a great speech, 45 years after the historic "I have a dream" of Martin Luther King. In the stadium were present eightyfour thousand people, a huge crowd. One thing has been impossible to think, in Italy.
A family dispute over the valuable estates of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has landed the late couple's children in court, with two of the siblings claming that a third has misappropriated money from their parents's estates.
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