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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Rich Mintz blogs on online fundraising and social media, American history and culture, bicycling and urbanism, food, technology, and other topics. Professionally, he's an expert in fundraising, constituency development, and social media for nonprofits, cultural organizations, cause-related marketers, and corporations. He is based in New York, where he serves as Vice President, Strategy, for 
