Monthly Archives: January 2013

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MLK the Radical


The holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement is a time not only to honor those achievements but to commit to continuing that work. Both those endeavors require us to remember King’s radical roots. In the dominant culture, King has become America’s all-purpose icon for racial harmony. To make King […]

We All Politicize History


Right-wing organizations love to suggest that radicals have taken over universities and are undermining students’ love of country. The latest expression of concern about this threat came from the National Association of Scholars and its Texas chapter in the report “Recasting History: Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating American History?” The report warns: all too […]

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