Posts tagged: Martin Luther King

The NY Daily News cover has photos of Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton speaking at the funeral of civil rights leader John Lewis. Below is a photo of Trump with the subhead, 'As past presidents honor Lewis, pouty Trump touts delaying elex.'

NY Daily News on Trump: ‘Three Men and a Baby’

Now, there’s a headline writer who went home with a sense of a job well done. Noted the article: Trump was the lone living president to play no official role in …..

John Lewis, wearing a dark suit and tie, speaks behind a lectern in front of a rather bland gray backdrop

John Lewis Biography and Photos

Congressman John Lewis has died at age 80. A towering civil rights figure who survived having his skull fractured by Alabama state police on “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, Lewis had …..

Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. looking calmly straight at the camera with one hand oratorically upraised

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Vision of Love Still Matters

[Editor’s note: The following guest post was originally published by our friends at The Conversation.] By Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State University 2017 was a year of increased conflict in the United …..

This Week in Biographies

A new memorial, an old Hungarian, and Darth Vader writes an autobiography.  

Assassins’ Birthday

Today, May 10th, is the birthday of actor John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.It’s also the birthday of jailbird James Earl Ray, who admitted to killing Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.