Last week, I visited the acclaimed Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, including the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. These new national landmark institutions “chronicle the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, and the connection to mass incarceration and contemporary issues of racial bias.” African American law … [Read more…]
“He is the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America,” said Martin Luther King about Reverend James Lawson. I introduced Reverend Lawson to some of you last month. Here, I will continue my overview of this remarkable man. One reason the sit-in movement of the early 1960s was successful was that MLK recruited Rev. Lawson to … [Read more…]
David Masciotra discusses the Biden dilemma in Salon. I include the unassailable first two and last paragraphs below. The survival of American democracy currently seems to depend upon convincing a majority of voters that a man who could not speak in complete sentences and spent half the night staring blankly into the middle distance in … [Read more…]
The efforts to eliminate the history of African Americans from books and classrooms are so fierce because that history is crucial to understanding the history of the United States and the current retreats from attempts at a multiracial democracy. That history goes back centuries. In addition to providing answers about the origins and workings of … [Read more…]
President Biden should step aside from running for reelection for the good of the country and his legacy. Depending on the poll, Biden is either in a dead heat or trailing Trump in the race, and his performance in the debate has likely put him in a bigger hole. In a poll after the debate, … [Read more…]