Here is Martin Luther King Jr. on April 3, 1968 in Memphis: Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. […]
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Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King
Why the Democrats need to turn away from identity politics and toward a class-based politics
Over at Jacobin, Melissa Naschek interviews New York University sociologist Vivek Chibber about identity politics and the Democratic Party. Here is a taste: Melissa Naschek: The Democratic Party has become almost synonymous with identity politics. How did the Democrats get […]
The history of “woke”
In a piece at The Washington Post, writer Bijan C. Bayne argues that “woke” is “the least woke word in U.S. English.” Here is a taste: You want to talk about Black history? Well, here’s a bit of etymology about […]