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...hour-long interview with Bill Moyers on PBS last week, Wright discussed in detail the history of the African-American religious tradition and presented a calm, erudite counterpoint to the outrageous caricature that most Americans have seen in the short clips of his sermons on YouTube. His speech to the Press Club continued in the same vein, providing context for what he sarcastically referred to as "the unknown phenomenon of the black church...
...poster boy of the reimagined black church is Martin Luther King, Jr. "King said America suffered from a 'congenital disease' and that disease is racism," notes Eddie Glaude, Princeton professor of religion. He says that King's speech against the Vietnam War, delivered at Riverside Church in April 1967, was not a feel-good speech. "It was a passionate cry to speak to these enormous problems that were linked to America's imperialism and militarism, and what he saw as the evils of capitalism." By that point int his career, King had been banned from Lyndon Johnson's White House...
...address was a celebratory address remarking on [David] Rockefeller and his $100 million donation to the University,” said Lam N. Ho, a Harvard Law School student who attended the event and spoke at a panel Saturday. “That was basically the entirety of the speech that evening...
Faust leans in to speak to David Rockefeller whose $100 million gift was the subject of her speech after the dinner Friday night...
...mouth. The strength drained from Felicity’s legs as she returned his embrace. She clutched helplessly at his suspenders.The Stable Boy pushed her away. His lips curving into a smile, he handed her the tatters of her ripped-open dress. Felicity tossed it aside, incapable of speech. Then she turned and stumbled back towards the house stark naked, her feet squelching in the mud.In the barn, The Stable Boy continued to sharpen the scythe. “One takes one’s pleasure where one can find it,” he said softly. He gave...