COLORLINES: TIM WISE: KING’S LEGACY TOOK A BEATING IN 2010

 

Click here to view this message in a browser window.   January 17, 2011 Colorlines.com Direct | Published by the Applied Research Center Tim Wise: We Twisted King’s Dream, So We Live With His Nightmare Anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise revives the radical politics that the right has airbrushed out of King’s dream.  Remembering MLK: The Things We’ve Forgotten Would Guide Us Civil rights movement scholar Barbara Ransby says we are all King’s political heirs. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call for Peace as Racial Justice Still Rings Global Justice columnist Michelle Chen explores the legacy of King’s antiwar activism. Also on Colorlines.com:The Self-Destruction of Government-vs.-the-People Ideology The violence in Arizona prompts bigger questions than Sarah Palin’s semantics, says Kai Wright. Investigations Force Feds to Revisit Murders of Civil Rights Era There were many more killings than those of activists. Benjamin Greenberg looks at a Louisiana black businessman’s murder investigation that has been reopened. Where is the Relief Money for Haiti? Hatty Lee’s infographic breaks down the tragically slow recovery. The recovery in photos; how the earthquake may have reversed Haiti’s HIV success; and more. Man With Golden Voice Ted Williams Heads To Rehab, How It All Unfolded An interactive look at how Ted Williams went from from hero to villain in less than two weeks. ELLE Cover Lightens The Most Beautiful Woman in the World ELLE is at it again. This time they’ve lightened Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai.   COLUMNS Dispatches    Editor’s Blog Global Justice   TOPICS IN FOCUS Election: Now What?   Haiti 14th Amendment ACTION      CELEBRATE LOVE   SHARE THIS Colorlines.com is published by the Applied Research Center