Tag: Martin Luther King

• Ideas as kin

  In a recent newsletter about the movement to dismantle the classics, Andrew Sullivan wrote about Martin Luther King Jr.’s syllabus for a seminar he was teaching at Morehouse College in 1962, which included Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Augustine’s City of God—a glimpse of what King believed an educated black man at that time should…

  Feb 19, 2021

  # Alan Jacobs, Andrew Sullivan, art, books, education, Martin Luther King

• Seeing In Black And White

  Rod Dreher recently wrote about Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s comments about, essentially, how happy he believed Black Southerners were in the 1950s before the civil rights movement. To Dreher, Robertson’s comments demonstrate the power of narrative, of the stories we tell ourselves and how they affect how we see the “truth” of our own situations, even when…

  Jan 2, 2014

  # America, books, civil rights, Duck Dynasty, history, Martin Luther King, New York Times, Phil Robertson, review, Rod Dreher, television, The Race Beat

• Courage Under Fire Hoses

  I just finished reading Hampton Sides’ Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., a recounting of the assassination of the famous civil rights leader through the perspectives of the people involved in the run-up to and aftermath of King’s slaying. I highly recommend this book for its extensive background on King’s…

  Feb 6, 2013

  # books, civil rights, Eyes on the Prize, Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail, history, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, review, segregation