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.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson October 1, 2002

  • 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.
    By Jennifer Foote Sweeney September 28, 2001

  • "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.
    January 12, 2001

  • "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.
    By Andrew O'Hehir May 11, 2000

  • 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.
    By Cintra Wilson April 27, 2000

  • 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.
    Letters to the Editor January 28, 2000

  • 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.
    By Mike Thomas January 8, 2000

  • False prophet

    A new biography of Elijah Muhammad tackles tough issues, including the matter of blacks' collusion with the Japanese during World War II.
    By Debra Dickerson January 6, 2000

  • "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?
    By Dante Ramos December 24, 1999

  • Bush up to his arse in allegations!

    Sharp-toothed e-mail, killer bees and bags of worms. Will this hound hunt?
    By Amy Reiter August 25, 1999

  • 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.
    By Gary Kamiya October 19, 1998

  • Days of rage (cont.)

    Filmmaker Stephen Talbot fires back at David Horowitz over his PBS documentary '1968.'
    By Stephen Talbot September 1, 1998

  • 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.
    By David Horowitz August 31, 1998

  • 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.
    By Stephen Talbot July 22, 1998

  • 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.
    By David J. Garrow April 28, 1998

  • 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.
    By Richard Rodriguez January 29, 1998

  • When "civil rights" means
    civil wrongs

    The real carriers of the civil rights banner
    are those who are helping end affirmative action.
    By David Horowitz September 15, 1997
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