Dream Tune

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2009

Many civil rights leaders and prominent African-American activists who came to Washington, D.C., almost 46 years ago for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington are returning to D.C. to witness President-elect Barack Obama's historic inauguration. more HERE
More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled. more HERE
holiday info HERE
Barack Obama Essay: Martin Luther King Day is HERE

Dream Fulfilled

DENVER, Colorado -- On August 28, 1963, U.S. civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. brought Americans into a dreamland with the resounding "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington D.C.
Exactly 45 years later, Barack Obama stood on the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Thursday night as the first-ever African-American presidential nominee of a major U.S. party.
As Dr. King foresaw before he was assassinated in 1968, the country has now accepted a person of color to be the presidential nominee.
more HERE
video HERE

40 Years Ago Today

Unfortunately this will be a year of often tragic anniversaries. The election of Richard Nixon to his first term in office. The brutal police riots at the Chicago Democratic convention. And worst of all, the assassinations of two of the brightest lights in the history of the American progressive movement: Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
more HERE
Washington Post article HERE

Sarcastic South

There is a peculiarly Southern irony in having the same holiday honor the pre-eminent American civil rights leader and the Confederacy's pre-eminent Civil War general. Yet that is what Alabama does -- along with Arkansas and Mississippi -- in having an official holiday commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee.
story is HERE