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It seems we’re observing this MLK Day in a time warp. Because America today looks so much like the Jim Crow America MLK spent his life fighting to change. Observing MLK Day in Jim Crow 2.0 America America is on a schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of MLK’s famous dream. On the one hand, America elected the first Black man as… Read more.
Many liberated women believe that feminism remains in the death throes of a backlash because NOW was hijacked in the 1970s. They say it was taken from pioneering women like Betty Friedan, who thought the movement should focus on issues like equal pay, sex-neutral help-wanted ads, maternity leave, child-care centers for working parents, and legal… Read more.
I’ve been dismayed over the years by the number of purportedly intelligent and fair-minded white people who have questioned why Coretta Scott King is so revered just because she was married to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. But whenever I condescended to disabuse them of their ignorance in this respect, I merely sufficed to query… Read more.
