9 Things You Should Know About Martin Luther King, Jr. - The Gospel Coalition Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday marking the birthday of Rev. Dr. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Others doctrines such as a supernatural plan of salvation, the Trinity, the substitutionary theory of the atonement, and the second coming of Christ are all quite prominent in fundamentalist thinking. 7. 8. 9. Other posts in this series: 9 Things You Should Know About Poverty in America 9 Things You Should Know About Christmas 9 Things You Should Know About The Hobbit 9 Things You Should Know About the Council of Trent 9 Things You Should Know About C.S. 9 Things You Should Know About Orphans 9 Things You Should Know about Halloween and Reformation Day 9 Things You Should Know About Down Syndrome 9 Things You Should Know About World Hunger 9 Things You Should Know about Casinos and Gambling 9 Things You Should Know About Prison Rape 9 Things You Should Know About the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing 9 Things You Should Know About the 9/11 Attack Aftermath
untitled The Case for Reparations And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today. — Deuteronomy 15: 12–15 — John Locke, “Second Treatise” By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it. — Anonymous, 1861 I. Clyde Ross was born in 1923, the seventh of 13 children, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of the blues. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. This was hardly unusual.
How America Double-Crossed Russia and Shamed the West The conditionality of the Soviet Union’s agreement to allow East Germany to be taken by West Germany and for the Cold War to end, was that NATO would not expand «one inch to the east». This was the agreement that was approved by the Russian President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, a great man and a subsequent hero to democrats around the world. He agreed then to end the Soviet Union and abandon communism and thus to end the entire Cold War; he agreed to this because he had been promised that NATO would expand not «one inch to the east,» or «one inch eastward,» depending upon how the promise was translated and understood — but it has the same meaning, no matter how it was translated. He trusted American President George Herbert Walker Bush, whose friend and Secretary of State James Baker made this promise to Gorbachev. He was even promised by the United States that «we were going to make them a member [of NATO], we were –observer first and then a member». «Mr.
9 Moving Reactions to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Assassination | TIME When Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis on April 4, 1968, it was, TIME declared, “both a symbol and a symptom of the nation’s racial malaise.” King had been in the Tennessee city to support a garbage-collectors’ strike, and was staying at an inexpensive motel, having been chastened for originally booking a stay at a place perceived as too fancy. He stepped out onto the motel “to take the evening air,” per TIME, and talk with co-workers. It was then that a bullet left a nearby building and found the civil-rights leader. In the tumultuous weeks that followed the assassination, TIME readers responded with a flood of letters to the editor. From Joyce K. Sir: Martin Luther King was murdered because he was our uncomfortable conscience. From John Barry of Los Angeles: Sir: His great, huge face is set forever in our memories; be it that his vision of brotherhood sets in our hearts. From James Thompson, a pastor in West Branch, Iowa: From Dorothy S. From Douglas P. From Mrs.
Racism in real estate: Landlords, redlining, housing values, and discrimination. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago to the Rise of Its Land Values, 1830–1933”—that ranked various races and nationalities by order of “desirability.” Most desired were the old American stock of Anglo-Saxons and Northern Europeans—English, Germans, Scots, Irish, and Scandinavians—followed by Northern Italians, Czechoslovakians, Polish, Lithuanians, Greeks, “Russian Jews of the lower class,” South Italians, and at the bottom of the list, “Negroes and Mexicans.” Jamelle Bouie is a Slate staff writer covering politics, policy, and race. For whites, there was some flexibility. On Tuesday, New York magazine shined light on “the grim, racist methods of one Brooklyn landlord,” a developer who does most of his business in gentrifying neighborhoods like Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Crown Heights. This is obviously racist, but it’s also unsurprising.
Embracing Death, Celebrating Life: Reflections on the Concept of Martyrdom in the Order of the Knights Templar - Medievalists.net Detail of a miniature of the burning of the Grand Master of the Templars and another Templar. From the Chroniques de France ou de St Denis, BL Royal MS 20 C vii f. 48r Embracing Death, Celebrating Life: Reflections on the Concept of Martyrdom in the Order of the Knights Templar Joachim Rother (Bamburg) The 1991 Ordines Militares colloquium in Toruń (Poland) was dedicated to the topic of spirituality in the military orders,1 but even 20 years later Kaspar Elm’s statement from that colloquium’s published proceedings still rings true: “The results of research conducted on the military orders in this field have been very limited thus far.” Although research on the concept of martyrdom during the era of the Crusades has gained considerable prominence, it has rarely been applied to the Knights Templar. Click here to read Joachim Rother’s: Embracing Death, Celebrating Life: Reflections on the Concept of a Martyrdom in the Order of the Knight’s Templar.
Propaganda and Islam: What you're not Being Told June 21, 2014 | Justin King (ANTIMEDIA) Propaganda is the wheel by which the government steers the bus of a nation; typically driving it into war or off the cliff of humanity. It is amazing to see how many people who are otherwise rational human beings will blindly follow the herd on the matter of how subhuman a perceived national enemy is. The western media wonderfully paints Islam as a death cult bent on world domination. Over and over again the American populace is shown footage of the atrocities committed by fanatics or of Arab men burning American flags. The problem, of course, is that this isn’t remotely representative of the Islamic population of the world. Some general facts about Islam might help break the noose of wartime propaganda that rests around America’s neck. “All [or most] Muslims are terrorists.” There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. “Muslims want Sharia law.” While many Muslims believe in Sharia law, what is considered Sharia law is not universal. Conclusion:
Epistemic injustice in the academy: an analysis of the Saida Grundy witch-hunt Guest blogger Arianne Shahvisi is an assistant professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut, and has recently written commentary for the New Statesman, Jacobin, Open Democracy, and Truthout, centered on issues surrounding race, class, gender, and borders. Last month, Saida Grundy, an incoming sociology faculty member at Boston University, tweeted a set of remarks and rhetorical questions regarding white supremacy, slavery, and misogyny in the US. In other words, a trained sociologist of race made some observations centered on race that were perfunctory and impassioned (as tweets invariably are), but nonetheless cogent. And that really should have been the end of that. Instead, her comments were met with a barrage of hate from ostensibly offended right-wing campus groups, and a subsequent outpouring of solidarity from Twitter users citing #IstandwithSaida. Boston University, where Martin Luther King studied for his PhD, has a race problem. Like this: Like Loading...
Ritmeyer Archaeological Design | …for the latest research, analysis and products on Biblical Archaeology When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark hi... They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep. My mind kept roaming the past trying to retrieve a vaguely remembered photograph that I had seen long ago in the archives of a college library in Texas. Suddenly, around two in the morning, the image materialized in my head. I made my way down the hall to my computer and typed in: “Waco, Texas. Lynching.” Sure enough, there it was: the charred corpse of a young black man, tied to a blistered tree in the heart of the Texas Bible Belt. The victim’s name was Jesse Washington. Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-old African-American, lynched in Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916. Click to enlarge. Here is the photograph.
untitled Monuments to Liberty Did Thomas Paine write the whole of Rights of Man, and if not, what does that mean for our understanding of the French Revolution? Published: 16 September 2015 “Fashion before Ease – or – A good Constitution sacrificed for a Fantastick Form”, 1793, by James Gillray We hope you enjoy this piece from the TLS, which is available every Thursday in print and via the TLS app. Also in this week’s issue: Carol Tavris on the cultural histories of plucking and nakedness; Leo Robson on the Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien; the future of television; Tessa Hadley’s past; Magna Carta – and much more. Here is a familiar outline account of the French Revolution, long established and echoed in various forms in many textbooks. The French troops who served in America during the revolutionary war learned lessons about the practice and principle of liberty. To English-speaking observers it seemed that the story must in its essentials be true Rights of Man certainly achieved canonical status.
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