Archivist finds long-lost recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA | UCLA. The timing of the speech is significant. King delivered it on April 27, 1965, one month and two days after the triumphant march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that is depicted so movingly in the new…
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There are common names associated with the civil rights movement, like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. And there are lesser-known names like Charles Moore. His photos, which often appeared in Life magazine in the 1960s, are the ones that put faces to a movement for most Americans. Via:…
I think Ava DuVernay should have been nominated for her outstanding direction of Selma, and I think David Oyelowo should have been nominated for his transforming portrayal of Martin Luther King…but I’m not in the Academy. The strongest thing I can say in censure is that these omissions are puzzling.…
The nominations came out today, and so did a barrage of verbiage. Let’s put this in perspective, in light of recent events perhaps shocking would be a word best used to describe the mindset that equates a difference of faith/expression/opinion with the right to murder. A snub is a marked…
“George Clooney married Amal Almuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case; was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria; and was selected for a three-person UN commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight … her husband is…
…She added that the last time she had seen so many people on the streets of Paris was the end of the Second World War. “I have been to demonstrations all my life and I have never seen anything like this.” via Huge crowds gather for Paris unity rally…
It has to be said that Charlie Hebdo is an unlikely victim of such unjustified violence. For most Parisians these days, the magazine is a quaint relic of the ’60s and ’70s that has long since lost its power to shock… To some extent, this was reflected in the ages…