You've probably never heard anything but the "I have a dream" speech. This one is very different, and well worth a listen in the light of current events.
Showing posts with label King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts - POLITICO
Paul Ingrassia's bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608
Monday, September 8, 2025
Angus King Asks Trump Energy Nom To Name Cheapest Form Of Electricity Generation— then he says this.
During a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Thursday, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) asked President Trump's nominee for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Laura Swett what the cheapest form of electricity generation is.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Senator Grills Tulsi Gabbard on Omission of Climate From Annual Threat Assessment – Mother Jones
The omission "ignores the hundreds of American lives lost and nearly $200 billion in damage from climate-fueled disasters in 2024."…
Monday, February 24, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
'LONG LIVE THE KING': Trump Gloats After Killing NYC Congestion Pricing | HuffPost Latest News
"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" Trump wrote on Truth Social...
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Preacher John MacArthur faces backlash after saying MLK was "not a Christian at all"
On February 19, fundamentalist Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in California condemned a Christian group for honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in 2018.
MacArthur claimed MLK was “not a Christian at all” and that the late civil rights leader was “a nonbeliever who misrepresented everything about Christ and the gospel.”
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
‘Racism is still with us’: celebration of King’s 1963 speech shadowed by racist attack
She told CNN: "Yesterday we saw the hate. It unfortunately demonstrated where we are compared with 1963, and the answer is – not far at all."…
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Jim Jordan's Fearmongering Question Prompts Withering 1-Word Reply From Stephen King | HuffPost Latest News
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday doubled down on his previous fearmongering over what freedoms "they" are apparently coming for next…
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Monday, September 7, 2020
Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other (Terry Gross, Fresh Air)
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are frequently seen as opposing forces in the struggle for civil rights and against white supremacy; King is often portrayed as a nonviolent insider, while Malcolm X is characterized as a by-any-means-necessary political renegade. But author and Black Power scholar Peniel Joseph says the truth is more nuanced.
"I've always been fascinated by Malcolm X and Dr. King ... and dissatisfied in how they're usually portrayed — both in books and in popular culture," Joseph says.
In his book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph braids together the lives of the two civil rights leaders. He says that King and Malcolm X had "convergent visions" for Black America — but their strategies for how to reach the goal was informed by their different upbringings.
"Malcolm X is really scarred by racial trauma at a very early age," Joseph says. "King, in contrast, has a very gilded childhood, and he's the son of an upper-middle-class, African-American family, prosperous family that runs one of the most important churches in Black Atlanta."
Joseph says that, over time, each man became the other's "alter ego." Malcolm X, he says, "injects a political radicalism on the national scene that absolutely makes Dr. King and his movement much more palatable to mainstream Americans."
Now, with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Joseph says that King and Malcolm X's visions have converged: "What's really extraordinary is that the Black Lives Matter protesters really are protesting for radical Black dignity and citizenship and see that you need both. So Malcolm and Martin are the revolutionary sides of the same coin, and really the BLM movement has amplified that."
Interview:
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901632573/black-power-scholar-illustrates-how-mlk-and-malcolm-x-influenced-each-other
"I've always been fascinated by Malcolm X and Dr. King ... and dissatisfied in how they're usually portrayed — both in books and in popular culture," Joseph says.
In his book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph braids together the lives of the two civil rights leaders. He says that King and Malcolm X had "convergent visions" for Black America — but their strategies for how to reach the goal was informed by their different upbringings.
"Malcolm X is really scarred by racial trauma at a very early age," Joseph says. "King, in contrast, has a very gilded childhood, and he's the son of an upper-middle-class, African-American family, prosperous family that runs one of the most important churches in Black Atlanta."
Joseph says that, over time, each man became the other's "alter ego." Malcolm X, he says, "injects a political radicalism on the national scene that absolutely makes Dr. King and his movement much more palatable to mainstream Americans."
Now, with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Joseph says that King and Malcolm X's visions have converged: "What's really extraordinary is that the Black Lives Matter protesters really are protesting for radical Black dignity and citizenship and see that you need both. So Malcolm and Martin are the revolutionary sides of the same coin, and really the BLM movement has amplified that."
Interview:
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901632573/black-power-scholar-illustrates-how-mlk-and-malcolm-x-influenced-each-other
Friday, June 5, 2020
Thursday, May 14, 2020
GOP Group Exposes 'King' Trump's Legal Shell Game In Blistering New Fox News Ad | HuffPost
Republican group warns the president: “No one is above the law.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/king-trump-legal-shell-game_n_5ebba20ac5b6bf83abbb2f9d
Monday, March 2, 2020
Comedians 'Honor' White Nationalist Rep. Steve King With His Own Confederate Statue | HuffPost
A comedy duo called The Good Liars unveiled the “tiny statue for a tiny man” in Des Moines, Iowa.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-statue-the-good-liars_n_5e58d66bc5b6beedb4e96afa
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-statue-the-good-liars_n_5e58d66bc5b6beedb4e96afa
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘The richest nation on Earth has never allocated enough resources to build sufficient schools’ - The Washington Post
Prescient quotes by MLK on education....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/20/rev-martin-luther-king-jr-richest-nation-earth-has-never-allocated-enough-resources-build-sufficient-schools/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/20/rev-martin-luther-king-jr-richest-nation-earth-has-never-allocated-enough-resources-build-sufficient-schools/
The greatest Martin Luther King speech you’ve never heard
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People's Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, which he delivered at New York City's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop," that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated.
https://youtu.be/cfJRpeCDoKo
https://youtu.be/cfJRpeCDoKo
Conway: MLK Didn’t Envision Impeachment | Talking Points Memo
On the eve of the Senate impeachment trial, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway somehow found a way to argue against impeachment by invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s name on his namesake holiday.
When asked during an interview on MSNBC Monday how President Trump plans to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Conway said that he’s gearing up for Davos and “agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for” in one breath.....
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/conway-impeachment-martin-luther-king-jr-day
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