By Ana Martinez-Ortiz In times of great turmoil and great triumph, we often find ourselves looking back on our past for guidance. As the cliché saying goes, history has a way of repeating itself and can act as a guide when it comes to making a decision about the next step. Given today’s current climate, […]
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EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES
A Day of Reckoning
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor We’ve Been Warned and Yet We Keep Making the Same Mistakes As we near the national observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday, we realize that King remains one of the most relevant and influential leaders of our day. King’s sentiment that the time is always […]
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Exploring Dr. King’s ‘Two Americas’ More Than Half a Century Later
By LaKeshia N. Myers Every year, I get a tad bit unnerved around Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. I get this way because I know many will post pictures and quotations that will celebrate him as a “dreamer” and seek to sanitize his life and legacy in order to fit him into a very […]
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Remembering Dr. King and “The Other America”
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Contributor Once again on the third Monday in January, much of the nation will mark the anniversary of the death of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Countless programs and events will no doubt recall several of his famous speeches from the 1963 March on Washington’s “I Have […]
King’s Lasting Impact on Equity in Education
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Champion for Equity in Education By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s influence on the Civil Rights Movement is indisputable, but his fight for equity in education remains a mystery to some. That fight began with his own education. “He clearly had an advanced, […]
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When Did the Black Community Stop Dreaming?
By Rahim Islam March 20, 2015 Rahim Islam “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly,” wrote Langston Hughes. One of the greatest men that the world has ever known is the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. author of […]
Chavis: Civil Rights Movement Needed More Now Than Five Decades Ago
By Nathan Hardin, Special to the NNPA from The Fayetteville Observer January 23, 2015 Ben Chavis (Courtesy Photo) PEMBROKE, NORTH CAROLINA — Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis kicked off a week-long Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Pembroke on Friday by saying a civil rights movement is of greater need in […]
100 BLACK MEN OF MADISON: Inspired By The Dream
By Graham Kilmer January 23, 2015 In New York City, 1963, the nonprofit organization The 100 Black Men, was born out of the tumultuous struggle for civil rights in black communities across the country. It was the same year that Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on […]
Judge Could Rule in Dispute Over MLK Bible & Nobel Medal
By Kate Brumback, Associated Press January 16, 2015 In this Feb. 6, 2006 file photo, the children of Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, left to right, Dexter Scott King, Rev. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III and Yolanda King participate in a musical tribute to their mother at the new Ebenezer […]
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The ‘Real’ Dream Speech
By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist January 16, 2015 Lee A. Daniels “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ‘interposition’ and ‘nullification’ – one day right there in Alabama little Black boys and Black […]