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Last year when I wrote about the 41st Anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, I highlighted some of the things that had happened in the first few months of President Obama’s administration that related to race, and I was none too happy about any of it. I didn’t think Dr. King [...]
It’s another year for Black History Month to try to get people who could care less to understand just what it used to mean to be black in America. I say it that way because based on a lot of what I see, most people care as much about that as they do about what [...]
On Tuesday night in Massachusetts the Democrats got a rude awakening for their arrogance in thinking that the election of another Democratic senator was a given and lost a seat in the Senate that they hadn’t been expecting to lose. That now means that they don’t have the numbers to automatically bank on getting a [...]
Today is the holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. I haven’t addressed it every year, though last year was something special because it was the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as president. It’s been a strange year, and I’ve sometimes wondered what Dr. King would have thought about the year in general. I [...]
On Friday morning, I came to the computer before I went to a meeting to see if there was any interesting news that happened while I was asleep. I was probably as shocked as everyone else was when I saw the news headline that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. My initial reaction was [...]
This is the enduring image from this date, April 4, 1968, the last day alive for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To many people today, this picture looks staged, but it’s the real deal. Dr. King was assassinated at 6:01PM at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, there supporting garbage workers on strike, and his killing [...]
