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Forty years ago this week, the University canceled classes, and three student-faculty demonstrations were held to honor civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been killed on April...
RIGHT AT THE END Heston's political beliefs followed a familiar trajectory - one that had been traced by a previous SAG president, Ronald Reagan - of liberal Democrat turned conservative Republican. In the early 60s he was a civil rights advocate, and accompanied Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1963 March on Washington. He opposed Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, and in 1968, after Robert Kennedy's assassination, he called for gun controls. He rejected a plea from prominent Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate only because, unlike Reagan when he segued into politics, Heston still...
After the Iowa primary, for example, Hillary Clinton seemed to give President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed civil rights legislation into law, more credit for progress than Martin Luther King Jr.'s "dream" - a perceived stand-in for Obama's "hope." When that drew negative attention among black voters, Bill Clinton made the rounds defending his wife's statements on more than three syndicated black talk radio programs in one day. "Ironically, the use of black radio by the Clinton campaign has been in giving Bill Clinton airtime to denounce Obama," says Richard Prince, an online media commentator. "During South...
...40th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, six student leaders came together to discuss the intersection of race and politcs. After Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s March 18 speech on race in America, three Cabot House resident tutors decided to organize a discussion in response. “Barack Obama’s speech really opened up a space for conversations like these to happen,” said Monique-Adelle Callahan, a Cabot resident tutor. “We had to take advantage of the momentum it produced...
Revenge may be more satisfying, but according to Harvard mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak, turning the other cheek is ultimately sweeter...