History - Politics Remembering King's Dream
It is fitting that the legal challenge to the University of Michigan's affirmative-action admission policies arrived around the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
King's stirring ’I have a dream’ speech, delivered August 28, 1963, signified the highest ideals of the civil rights movement. Invoking the promise of the Declaration of Independence -- and reminding all of the terrible injustice of America's failure to make good on that promise -- King took the high ground and set a moral tone that could not be ignored.
Yet, more than three-and-a-half decades later, things still seem amiss.
· Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ speech [Independent]
· The New Betrayal of Black Freedom in America [Independent]
· Losing the Race? Black Progress, Freedom and Independence [Independent]
· Truth and Propaganda in Politically Correct America [Independent]
· Race Preferences: Pro and Con [Independent]
History - Internet The Story That Legitimized Cyberjournalism
Vin Crosbie on an online-news milestone. Today is said to be the fifth anniversary of an event that legitimized the Internet as a news medium. On January 17, 1998, cyberjournalist Matt Drudge broke the story of intern Monica Lewinsky's affair with U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton. Newspaper, broadcast, and magazine coverage of the story followed.
