MLK Day: A Confession and Some Links to Further Reading
First, the confession. In the flush of hoping to restart the blog last year, as opposed to this year, I wrote the following: For the record, I plan to read wha...
Tag: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Wrestling with Race and Culture
But for me, the beauty was the love between a son and a father and the determination of that father to mold his son despite some very powerful countervailing pr...
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Wrestling with Race and Culture Part Two
Even if you disagree with him, I think anyone interested in this most difficult of topics would find Williams' thoughts and experiences interesting but it is co...
Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life by Marshall Frady
History is indeed messy, and prophets and heroes are rarely simple, but in the hands of skilled writers and thinkers this only makes the past more interesting. ...