MLK: A Dream Realized?

Forty-six years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, we are compelled to self evaluate: has the dream been realized? Are we now finally a nation where color and creed truly do not matter when speaking of an individual’s character? Are we even close? Or, did the speech describe [...]

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Students in Iran Following in Dr. Martin Luther King’s Footsteps, Facing a Machiavellian Punisher

On Tuesday Iranian students at Sharif University held an antigovernment protest. The cause for the protest was the controversy with the current president of Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There are beliefs that he unjustly swayed the election in his favor. The Minister of Science and Higher education, Kamran Daneshjoo, was supposed to pay a visit [...]

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Rage against the Machine and MLK

So this is definitely not recent, but I thought it tied in with what we’ve been discussing in class. My favorite band of all time Rage Against the Machine was kicked off SNL for their beliefs, here is the link:http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/snl.htm How far does our right to free speech go? If one of the most liberal [...]

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nancy Pelosi

 As I was reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, I couldn’t help but think of the protests and rallies that have been going on across the United States throughout the summer, the Tea Parties and health care protestors. These Tea Parties, which protest the expansion of government and higher rates of taxation, [...]

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