Obama and King
Adele Oltman : Religion
As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of King's most famous speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.
Martin Luther King Jr.
2008
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A Conversation with Taylor Branch
Bruce Wallace : History
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
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King's Legacy of Change
Grace Lee Boggs : Civil Rights Movement
No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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