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Whatever happened to Martin Luther King?
Who says we never celebrate the holidays at Stay Free? We've got two Martin Luther King, Jr. items for you people:
Martin Luther King™
What Martin Luther King's estate is doing in the name of "intellectual property" has the civil rights leader rolling over in his grave. From Stay Free! #24, by Kembrew McLeod.
The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
In his time, MLK was a radical who the FBI tried to take down. Now, he's a postage stamp. When I was teaching high school media literacy, I used this article from FAIR on MLK Day, and it inspired some lively class discussion.
Posted by carrie on 01/16/2006 | Permalink
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I may be opening myself up to scorn and worse, but I watched the recent episode of Boondocks - a dream in which King doesn't die but ends up in a many-decade coma, awakening in 2000. What the black and white communities make of him then, and what he makes of the world he finds was awfully moving and thought provoking. The whole episode made me quite sad.
Posted by: Steve Portigal | Jan 31, 2006 12:01:51 PM
