Tag Archives: Martin Luther King

And she did it today before an all-time low Hate Tour crowd of FIFTEEN, versus over 250 of the good guys. The Courage Campaign quotes Alveda King: “I don’t know about you but I’m not ready to be extinct,” King said to the crowd after pointing out that “it is statistically proven” that marriage between one man and one woman …

Utah state Senators are considering a plan to rename Martin Luther King Day to include mention of rifle manufacturer John Browning. A plan is circulating under the radar in the Utah State Senate to share the holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., shot to death in 1968, with one of the country’s most famous gun makers. The …

JMG reader Sean Chapin sends us his LGBT rights take on Martin Luther King’s famous “How Long?” speech.

Noted homophobe Rev. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., has been named the first woman to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And the calls for her to renounce her anti-gay bigotry have begun. From the Daily Voice, which bill itselfs as “black America’s daily news source”: She should renounce the anti-gay bigotry of her recent past. …

On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 March On Washington, many are hoping that tonight Barack Obama can somehow recapture the excitement and optimism of that day. Many veterans of the march will gather at televisions in their living rooms Thursday night, or sit with friends and old comrades and watch …

One of my two most vivid childhood memories is standing in my grandmother’s living room in Newark, at age four, pondering all the adults’ horrified reactions to the assassination of JFK. I didn’t understand what had happened, why the women in my family were sobbing as the men spoke quietly with grim, fear-filled faces. The other memory comes from when …