Martin Luther King Assassination

No Sense in Staying, Hillary

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Malcom X, Hillary Clinton, Hillary's Me Campaign, Medgar Evers, Democratic Primary, Mlk, Bobby Kennedy Assasination, Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Assassination, Assassination, Martin Luther King Assassination, Offthebus, Home News

We've already lost too many great leaders who were trying to change the status quo. After Hillary's recent crass comments, her career had better be over.

Read Post

Jamal, MLK, and Me

Byron Williams | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King Assassination 40th Anniversary, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, 40th Anniversary, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Byron Williams

How could I possibly celebrate the life of a man who was assassinated while advocating for those on the margins and not affirm the humanity of this young man on the street?

Read Post

A Fatal Blow to Idealism

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

An article in the Washington Post for the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death: "A Fatal Blow To Idealism."

Read Post

On Obama Not Going to Memphis

Cornel West | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Cornel West

I have a very deep disagreement with my dear brother, Barack Obama -- in this case, commitment to truth is in tension with the quest for power.

Read Post

Honoring King is Not Enough

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, Martin Luther King Assassination, Mlk Jr Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Assasination, Mlk, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Too many of us would rather celebrate than follow Dr. King. We would rather build a monument or name a street or school after him than build the new nation and world he called for.

Read Post

The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charlie Rose | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, James Clyburn, Reverend Martin Luther King, Tom Brokaw, John Hope Franklin, Civil Rights, Memphis, Mlk, Mlk Jr Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Assassination, Mlk Jr, Politics News
Charlie Rose

2008-04-04-mlkjrrosepullnew.jpgTo commemorate Dr. King's legacy and to take a deeper look at race in America I spoke with Tom Brokaw, John Hope Franklin, James Clyburn and Dr. Beverly Tatum.

Read Post

Forty Years Gone: MLK's Dream Today Would Be Colored 'Green'

Van Jones | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Green Jobs, The Dream Reborn, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Assasination, Martin Luther King, Mlk, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Van Jones

Dr. King worked for equal protection and equal opportunity. We, too, must adopt that agenda, but ours is an age of both social crisis and ecological peril.

Read Post

40 Years after MLK's Death: DOJ's War on Black Voters

Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mlk Jr Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King, Black Voters, Bush Justice Department, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Assasination, Justice Department, Mlk, African American Voters, African Americans, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Art Levine

What was once primarily a series of tactics stretching back from the evil days of the poll tax in the 1960s to "caging" and photo ID today, has become official Justice Department policy.

Read Post

Remembering Dr. King's Legacy on Poverty

Rep. Barbara Lee | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Poverty, Mlk, Martin Luther King, Barbara Lee, MLK Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Assassination, Martin Luther King Poverty, Mlk Jr Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr Poverty, MLK Poverty, US Poverty, Mlk Jr, Politics News
Rep. Barbara Lee

Addressing poverty should be one of our first priorities, not the last. And one of the first steps we should take is to end our generation's version of the Vietnam War, our occupation of Iraq.

Read Post

Just Forty Years Ago

Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Mlk Jr Assasination, Kennedy Catholic, Martin Luther King, Walter Fauntroy, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Assasination, Catholic, Mlk, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Assassination, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Frank Mankiewicz

I was Robert Kennedy's press secretary, and I had received maybe 10 calls from various media, reporting accusations from angry Catholic phone callers complaining the senator had "taken communion" in a Protestant church.

Read Post

The New Assassins Don't Use Guns

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Blogs, Bill Clinton, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Matt Drudge, Malcolm X, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Media, Journalism, Rod Serling, Robert Kennedy, Mlk Jr Assasination, Conspiracy Theories, MLK Assasination, Conspiracy, Right Wing, Clintons, Assassinations, Mlk, Right-Wing Conspiracy, Character Assassination, Character, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King, Paulo Friere, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
RJ Eskow

A new form of political murder has taken its place -- character assassination. Over the last two decades, the Right has learned how to destroy its enemies without leaving a body.

Read Post

Unions Can Help Us Get Over the Mountaintop Towards the Promised Land

Gerry Hudson | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Poverty, Martin Luther King, US Poverty, Martin Luther King Jr., African Americans Unions, Unions, Labor Unions, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Gerry Hudson

As Martin Luther King knew so well, unions have long built bridges to those islands of poverty that stain our society and threaten the American Dream.

Read Post

April 4, 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jr., George W, Martin Luther King, Rev. James Lawson, Barack Obama, Bush, Robert F. Kennedy, Mlk Jr Assasination, Barack Obama Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Assasination, Mlk, Rfk, Lbj, Coretta Scott King, Barack Obama MLK, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Bobby Kennedy's brief remarks the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would be later described as a small masterpiece of American public rhetoric made all the more poignant by his own assassination just eight weeks later.

Read Post

40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced

Jeff Cohen | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, Mlk Jr Assasination, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King Foreign Policy, Martin Luther King Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, MLK Assasination, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Mlk, Race, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Assassination, Politics News
Jeff Cohen

In 1967 and '68, mainstream media saw Rev. Martin Luther King a bit like they now see Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Read Post

Was James Earl Ray Martin Luther King's Killer? Doubts Remain

Huffington Post | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Martin Luther King Autopsy, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King Assassination, Who Killed Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray, Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Politics News

The BBC reports: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 40 years ago on 4 April 1968. A year later, James Ear...

Read Whole Story

King: "I Can't Follow the Old Eye-For-an-Eye Philosophy"

Paul Helmke | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Martin Luther King, Guns, Martin Luther King Assassination, Robert F. Kennedy, Mlk, Politics News
Paul Helmke

If Dr. King is looking down on us today, I can imagine him seeing 12,352 gun murders a year in the U.S. -- nearly 34 every day -- and telling us that "the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy leaves everyone blind."

Read Post

Barriers Broken, Barriers Remain

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Institute for Policy Studies, Michael Fauntroy, Society, Race, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama Race, Martin Luther King Assassination, Obama Race Speech, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

Acknowledgment of the current state of play is necessary if we are to ever get beyond the surface, gut-level reactions to race that pollute our discussions of racism and its impact.

Read Post

Q&A With The Late Coretta Scott King

Janet Kinosian | Posted 04.04.2008 | Living

Read More: The Giving Life, Martin Luther King Assassination 40th Anniversary, Coretta Scott King Interview AARP, Last Coretta Scott King Interview, Martin Luther King Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King Gay Rights, Martin Luther King Assassination, Living News
Janet Kinosian

The family of Martin Luther King has survived a great deal since the following 2004 interview took place in Atlanta. Coretta King had moved from her l...

Read Post

Green For All (For Martin Luther King): The New Color Of The New Civil Rights Movement

Katie Halper | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environmental Racism, Martin Luther King, Green for All, Dream Reborn Martin Luther KIng, Martin Luther King Jr., Asthma, Katrina, 40th Anniversary, Martin Luther King Assassination, The Dream Reborn: A Gathering to Honor Dr. King, Poverty, Environment, Environmentalism, Politics News
Katie Halper

Although often presented as "single issues" poverty, racism, and environmental degradation are interlinked, as low-income people suffer disproportionately from cancer, asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Read Post

Obama Campaign Rakes In the Dough After Iowa

The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 2008 Elections, New Hampshire Primary Results, Obama Clinton 2008, Mccain S Wife, New Hampshire Poll, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire Debates, Barack Obama Polls, New Hampshire Debate Abc, 2008 Election, hillaryclinton.com, Jfk Obama, Clinton 2008, New Hampshire Debate January 5, 2008 Primaries, Obama Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, New Hampshire Polls, Clinton Super Tuesday, New Hampshire Debate Schedule, Nevada Primary, Florida Primary, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton 2008, South Carolina Primary, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Obama New Hampshire Speech, New Hampshire Primary, Martin Luther King, Obama Good Morning America, Martin Luther King Assassination, Nh Primary Results, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Politics News

Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...

Read Whole Story

The Weekly Standard's Latest Dewey Moment

Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 2008 Elections, New Hampshire Primary Results, Obama Clinton 2008, Mccain S Wife, New Hampshire Poll, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire Debates, Barack Obama Polls, New Hampshire Debate Abc, 2008 Election, hillaryclinton.com, Jfk Obama, Clinton 2008, New Hampshire Debate January 5, 2008 Primaries, Obama Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, New Hampshire Polls, Clinton Super Tuesday, New Hampshire Debate Schedule, Nevada Primary, Florida Primary, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton 2008, South Carolina Primary, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Obama New Hampshire Speech, New Hampshire Primary, Martin Luther King, Obama Good Morning America, Martin Luther King Assassination, Nh Primary Results, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Politics News

Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...

Read Whole Story

Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears

Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 2008 Elections, New Hampshire Primary Results, Obama Clinton 2008, Mccain S Wife, New Hampshire Poll, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire Debates, Barack Obama Polls, New Hampshire Debate Abc, 2008 Election, hillaryclinton.com, Jfk Obama, Clinton 2008, Clinton Tears, New Hampshire Debate January 5, 2008 Primaries, Obama Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, New Hampshire Polls, Clinton Super Tuesday, New Hampshire Debate Schedule, Nevada Primary, Florida Primary, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Hillary Clinton Cries, Super Tuesday, Hillary Cries, Hillary Clinton 2008, South Carolina Primary, Jesse Jackson Jr, Barack Obama, Hillary Tears, Barack Obama 2008, Obama New Hampshire Speech, New Hampshire Primary, Martin Luther King, Obama Good Morning America, Martin Luther King Assassination, Nh Primary Results, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Clinton Cries, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Politics News

The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...

Read Whole Story

Woman Who Made Clinton Cry Voted For Obama

Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 2008 Elections, New Hampshire Primary Results, Obama Clinton 2008, Mccain S Wife, New Hampshire Poll, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire Debates, Barack Obama Polls, New Hampshire Debate Abc, 2008 Election, hillaryclinton.com, Jfk Obama, Clinton 2008, New Hampshire Debate January 5, 2008 Primaries, Obama Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, New Hampshire Polls, Clinton Super Tuesday, New Hampshire Debate Schedule, Nevada Primary, Florida Primary, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton 2008, South Carolina Primary, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Obama New Hampshire Speech, New Hampshire Primary, Martin Luther King, Obama Good Morning America, Martin Luther King Assassination, Nh Primary Results, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Politics News

The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...

Read Whole Story

Did Edwards Slip Help Clinton In New Hampshire?

Political Wire | Stuart Rothenberg | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 2008 Elections, New Hampshire Primary Results, Obama Clinton 2008, Mccain S Wife, New Hampshire Poll, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire Debates, Barack Obama Polls, New Hampshire Debate Abc, 2008 Election, hillaryclinton.com, Jfk Obama, Clinton 2008, New Hampshire Debate January 5, 2008 Primaries, Obama Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, New Hampshire Polls, Clinton Super Tuesday, New Hampshire Debate Schedule, Nevada Primary, Florida Primary, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton 2008, South Carolina Primary, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Obama New Hampshire Speech, New Hampshire Primary, Martin Luther King, Obama Good Morning America, Martin Luther King Assassination, Nh Primary Results, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Politics News

While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and othe...

Read Whole Story

Could Obama Win New York's Democratic Primary?

New York Sun | PETER KIEFER | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 2008 Elections, Obama Clinton 2008, New Hampshire Poll, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire Debates, Obama New York, Barack Obama Polls, New Hampshire Debate Abc, 2008 Election, Ed Koch, Jfk Obama, Clinton 2008, New Hampshire Debate January 5, Obama Clinton, New Hampshire Polls, Clinton Super Tuesday, New Hampshire Debate Schedule, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Hillary Clinton 2008, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, New Hampshire Primary, Martin Luther King, Obama Good Morning America, Martin Luther King Assassination, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama Good Morning America, Politics News

It seemed next to impossible just a few days ago: the idea of Senator Obama competing against -- much less beating -- Senator Clinton on her home turf...

Read Whole Story


 

 Site  Web ask.com