Tag: Martin Luther King
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Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
Despite an attempt to take a bigger bite, the watchdog came up short once more, going 0-for-5 on the Sunday shows. On Meet the Press, Sen. Bob Casey was not asked about the Senate\’s comprise bill on foreclosure relief, in which actual funding for foreclosure relief was compromised away while $6 billion in tax breaks…
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Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We\’ll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air…
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Weekend Watchdog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We\’ll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked. And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air…
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Forty Years Later, Still Far From the Mountaintop
“You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to hell because he didn\’t see the poor. … And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell, if we don\’t use her wealth. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to…
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Born-Again Americans and That Old-Time (Civil) Religion
Can we progressives — who won\’t be caught dead these days calling ourselves liberals — can we stop serving as a punching bag for the right? And speak with depth and conviction about the things that really matter to us? Once and for all, can we break through the false and humiliating charade that they…
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Lessons from the 1960s for 21st-Century Change
In the heat of the 1960s civil rights movement, Rev. Jesse Jackson was a young lieutenant to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Roger Wilkins was a White House insider. But reflecting on their different vantage points at the Take Back America conference, they have come to the same conclusion about how the civil…
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Lessons from the 1960s for 21st-Century Change
In the heat of the 1960s civil rights movement, Rev. Jesse Jackson was a young lieutenant to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Roger Wilkins was a White House insider. But reflecting on their different vantage points at the Take Back America conference, they have come to the same conclusion about how the civil…
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Pete Seeger: Changing the World With Song
Folk singer Pete Seeger\’s book, \”Where Have All the Flowers Gone,\” includes a tribute to the people who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that recalls the spirit of fortitude and hope of the early civil rights movement — and asks us to recapture it in a post 9/11 world. One of the verses…
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It Takes a Movement
Wading into the storm kicked up by Sen. Hillary Clinton\’s comment that \”it took a president\” to turn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\’s dream of racial equality into a reality, Bill Moyers nails it on his January 18 commentary for his PBS show, \”Bill Moyers\’ Journal\”: Many, many years ago, I was a young White…
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It Takes a Movement
Wading into the storm kicked up by Sen. Hillary Clinton\’s comment that \”it took a president\” to turn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\’s dream of racial equality into a reality, Bill Moyers nails it on his January 18 commentary for his PBS show, \”Bill Moyers\’ Journal\”: Many, many years ago, I was a young White…