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When MLK was Old
King at Boston University A new study published in Science magazine invites a fresh take on Bob Dylan’s refrain, “Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” The study of 19,000...
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Rosa, We Hardly Knew Ye
Rosa Parks and Jeanne Theoharis, author of the first scholarly biography of the civil rights legend. Nonviolence as a tool of social change has often been underestimated and misunderstood. The British...
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“What the Hell’s the Presidency for?”
On Monday of this week, the police chief of Montgomery, Alabama, formally apologized to Georgia Congressman John Lewis, for what the police did not do in May 1961—protect Lewis and the other young...
View ArticleInertness, U.S.A.
Posted earlier today at Tikkun Daily. Part of what fascinates me about the civil rights struggles of the 1960s is that, through these upheavals, America changed. Compare that to today’s inertness: we...
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