Have you seen Trump’s new campaign ad? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOlOMLaFho&w=560&h=315] As Bruce Springsteen once said, “Fear’s a dangerous thing. It can turn your heart black, you can trust. It’ll take your God-filled soul and fill it with devils and dust.” Fear...
1968
Remembering and “Misremembering” 1968
Robert Greene II, a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, has a nice piece at Religion & Politics on the way we remember the careers and tragic deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Both were...
When RFK Announced the Death of MLK
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCrx_u3825g&w=560&h=315] This week–April 4th to be exact–is the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Over at Smithsonian.com, historian Alice George reflects on Robert Kennedy’s announcement of King’s death. Here is a taste of her piece:...