Archive for the 'Martin Luther King, Jr.' Category

Liberadio(!) Podcast: Beyond, Beyond Vietnam

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Summary: It’s Martin Luther King’s day and time to celebrate the life of a man who fought for civil rights and, in his later years, railed against the Vietnam War. And it’s so awesome that the Democrats have both a woman and an African-American in this year’s presidential race but we can’t wait for the […]

Oh Sure. Everyone Loves a Civil Rights Leader Until He Starts Talking About Peace and Social Justice

Monday, January 21st, 2008

April 1967. Martin Luther King decides to turn it up to eleven and gets vilified and/or ignored.

In 1995, Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon wrote about King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech in the essay, “The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV.” They’ve re-released it every year since hoping that more people will come to understand […]