Category: in the news
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Text and Meaning in Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech (part 1 of 4)
(photograph of MLK National Memorial by Larry Downing for Reuters) “He captured the spotlight of history precisely at the right time, and responded with a blueprint for what America could become if it trusted its democratic legacy… He was murdered. But his dream still excites our social and political imaginations.…
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African-American Music Links Cultural Legacies around the Globe (part 1 of 3)
Following the death of Michael Jackson during Black Music Month 2009 a crowd gathers and dances outside the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. (photo by Getty Images) The basic idea underlying the…
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