http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Sheryl-Crow-w-Burt-Bacharach-01-Dancing-With-Your-Shadow-2422941.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The number of bus permits issued for the Women’s March in Washington on the Saturday after the Inauguration has passed 1800 and reportedly all the seats on Amtrak between DC and New York City are booked. Police and other city officials, rather than the march …
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Leslie Dunbar, John Lewis, and Heeding the Call of the Civil Rights Movement
New Orleans Thus far President-elect Trump and his office have said nothing formally in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day. His Twitter-attack on civil rights warrior and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis capsulizes his own special oblivion to the struggles and aspirations of tens of millions who don’t live in Manhattan and winter in Florida. I …
A Personal Remembrance of Martin Luther King’s Pivot to Poverty
New Orleans Every once in a while something falls into your hands that begs to be shared. In this case S.M. “Mike” Miller, one of my infrequent, but invaluable correspondents and a faithful subscriber and sometime contributor to our journal, Social Policy, sent me, and others, a remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr, which seems …