Thanks for making MLK Day event a success On behalf of the Community Coalition for Social Justice, I want to thank everyone who made our 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Jan. 16 a success. We could not do this without the financial support of the City of Morgantown. We ...
by Tom H. Hastings During the fight over the new House Speaker election, Congress member Chip Roy (R-Texas), who voted against the anti-lynching act last March, had the immoral temerity to quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He did so as he explained how he was positioning himself to the ...
It’s all the stuff that keeps bubbling up after, Al Anderson said the other day. The Osage activist and old R&B singer allowed himself a brief bit of uncharacteristic melancholy, as he looked toward Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. He was there on the mall in ...
“He wears the clothes of a dissenter, but there’s a logo on his back.” — from “Damn It, Rose,” by Don Henley. When he died, Martin Luther King was likely the most hated man in America. This is a fact obscured by decades of veneration so intense that even conservatives now ...
OSAGE -- Listen to Al Anderson talk, and you’ll hear a whole jukebox in your head. After the ambient drop of the needle onto the grooves of the 45 – as Al’s cerebral machine plays only real records – here (hear) comes the playlist. This machine carries stacks of Stax: the ...
by Dahleen Glanton Stacey Abrams and Black Lives Matter have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both were unexpected, nontraditional choices. But only one deserves to win. If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, it is possible that his movement would look a lot like ...