Martin Luther King Jr.

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  • "Barbershop" doesn't need a trim

    Beneath the furor over the film's wisecrack about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. lies a real crisis in black leadership.
  • What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?

    As we struggle to define courage under the threat of terrorism, we can't dismiss the power of nonviolence.
  • "I Have a Dream"

    Hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963 at the March on Washington.
  • "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley -- His Battle for Chicago and the Nation" by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor

    A big biography tells the full story of the legendary politician, with a sharp focus on his battle to keep the Windy City segregated.
  • I have seen the future: It's Tenacious D

    If watching these two short, fat, weird guys perform doesn't make you happier than you've been in years, you're withered and dead within.
  • Letters to the Editor

    "Typhoid Dan" Savage is a sick, demented freak Plus: Southern divorce rate -- a loosening of the Bible Belt? The newsgroup junkies are right -- "The Simpsons" does suck now.
  • Babatunde Olatunji: Delivering the cure

    A strange stranger in a strange land, decades ago Baba introduced millions to the medicine of drumming. Now 72, he's still got the beat.
  • False prophet

    A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks' collusion with the Japanese during World War II.
  • "I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr." by Michael Eric Dyson

    What would the civil rights leader think if he were alive today?
  • Bush up to his arse in allegations!

    Sharp-toothed e-mail, killer bees and bags of worms. Will this hound hunt?
  • Across the great divide

    If government programs can't solve America's racial dilemma, can love? Three new books take a fresh look at the ongoing challenge of black-and-white integration.
  • Days of rage (cont.)

    Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
  • Repressed memory syndrome

    The legendary year 1968 stills hold the baby-boom generation in thrall -- but it was actually the pinnacle of anti-democratic narcissism.
  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    This is the 30th anniversary of a series of tumultuous events that shaped a generation. To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through it.
  • Triumphant in death

    James Earl Ray is laughing all the way to hell, thanks to the King family's preposterous belief that he didn't kill Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Newsreal: Defending the right to pry

    Many commentators, notably feminists, dismiss stories about the sex life of President Clinton as irrelevant to his public role. But this drawing of a line between public and private lives, says a homosexual writer, cannot work.
  • When "civil rights" means
    civil wrongs

    The real carriers of the civil rights banner
    are those who are helping end affirmative action.
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