- Oct 2022
-
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
-
The FBI declined several requests to comment for this article. Among the documents obtained by Rolling Stone —some of which are newly declassified— is a 1968 document discussing funeral plans for Martin Luther King Jr., calling it a “racial situation.” It further notes “Sammy Davis Jr., Aretha Franklin…of this group, some have supported militant Black power concept…[performance at MLK memorial by these prominent entertainers] would provide emotional spark which could ignite racial disturbance in this area.” The agency also tried and failed to connect Franklin to the Black Liberation Army and other so-called “radical” movements. In one case, the FBI detailed her 1971 contract with Atlantic Records “just in case” agents could link Franklin’s business dealings to the Black Panther Party. Another document titled “Possible Racial Violence” describes an incident in August 1968 when Franklin canceled a show at the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver, Colorado. According to local news reports at the time, fans engaged in a “20-minute melee” and “broke chairs and music stands, damaged a grand piano, and even set fire to trees, bushes and trash piles.”
-
- Feb 2022
-
threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
-
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494322378142359554.html
from https://twitter.com/NeilLewisJr/status/1494322378142359554
Context:
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Some news: yesterday I learned that, by faculty vote, my bid for tenure/promotion was not approved.<br><br>I feel many things, but not shame or regret. I am so proud of our work during our time at yale, and angry that this version of that work will come to an end, this end.
— Michael W. Kraus (@mwkraus) February 16, 2022
-
- Dec 2021
-
www.un.org www.un.org
-
“there can be no justice without peace, and there can be no peace without justice”.
-
- Mar 2020
-
www.realclearpolitics.com www.realclearpolitics.com
-
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." - Martin Luther King Jr.
-
Wipe that smug ass look off your face, Hilary Rosen. This WiPiPo crap has got to stop.
-
- Dec 2018
-
okra.stanford.edu okra.stanford.edu
-
Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the eco- nomic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion in need of new b100d
-
- Jul 2015
-
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
-
My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box.
This, of course, is flipping Martin Luther King's famous quote about "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." It's upsetting to think that Coates is saying that the reality is that the arc bends toward death, not justice.
See:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/15/arc-of-universe/
and
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129609461
-