Martin Luther King Jr.

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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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