history
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The continuing legacy and call to conscience
January 17, 2020Perhaps it was not the man but the circumstances, challenges, and experiences that produced greatness in King.
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Rewriting the United States’ past (and future): The 1619 Project and its critics
January 17, 2020It's time to rethink everything you thought you knew about U.S. history.
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MLK’s final campaign lives on: The war against racism and poverty
January 17, 2020Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
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Review: “To The Promised Land,” King’s fight for economic justice
January 13, 2020As a short book, Honey’s To The Promised Land packs quite a punch.
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A revelatory performance of Erich Korngold’s opera ‘Der Ring des Polykrates’
December 23, 2019The 1914 one-act opera, composed when the precocious Korngold was but 17 years old, is in a full-blown, late German Romantic idiom.
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