Happy Martin Luther King/Catch-Up Day
January 18th, 2010 at 12:24 pm ETIf you have today off work (as I do) and you’re spending the day (as I am) catching up on some combination of [laundry|dishes|work email|bills|picture-hanging|TiVo|letters to family|closet organizing|etc.-ad-nauseam], don’t forget to take some time to reflect on why today’s a holiday in the first place. Maybe you want to start here, with “Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said” (video, 2 min.), from Jay Smooth’s Ill Doctrine hip-hop video blog. (Posted by Sam Graham-Felsen.)
If you’re feeling more substantive:
- Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (video, 22 min.)
- AFSCME documentary on the Memphis sanitation strike (video, 10 min.)
- David Halberstam, The Children (via Amazon.com)
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