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Cornel West on "The Radical King"

March 30, 2018

Cornel West explores MLK's radical political thinking with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. An audiobook of West's compilation The Radical King, narrated by LeVar Burton, Gabourey Sidibe, Cornel West, Mike Colter, Danny Glover, Colman Domingo, and Wanda Sykes, will be released April 3, 2018.

The Beatles | Revolution

March 30, 2018

Released 50 years ago, in tumultuous 1968, John Lennon's Revolution is considered one of the greatest rock songs. Despite its driving, almost apocalyptic, guitar riffs it is less a celebration of revolution than a succinct rebuke of nihilism and sectarianism.

How the NRA Hijacks Gun Control Debates

March 30, 2018

Why is the NRA -- a group that represents the interests of gun manufacturers -- taken seriously in debates about reducing gun violence?

Fallback Friday With Sacha Jenkins and Baratunde Thurston

March 30, 2018

Cultivated Wit founder Baratunde Thurston joins Ari Melber for Fallback Friday and calls for surveillance capitalism to fall back

MLK’s Radical Final Years

March 30, 2018

Fifty years ago Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated at age 39. This program looks back at the last three years of King’s life, beginning after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King set his eyes on radical new objectives, launching a Poor People’s Campaign and campaigning to stop the Vietnam War.

March 30, 2018

Help David Hogg Fight Back Against Laura Ingraham’s Bullying

Media Matters staff Media Matters

David Hogg is calling for people to contact Ingraham’s Fox News advertisers. Here are some recent ones.

March 30, 2018

Book Review: Daniel Ellsberg's New Nuclear Wakeup Call

Chuck Idelson Portside

The secrets Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) unfolds are a thousand times more frightful than Stephen King at his best. Except this is no novel. Not “Dr. Strangelove” but “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.”

March 30, 2018

You Realize Arming Teachers Is Going to Lead to Black Students Getting Murdered by Their Teacher, Right?

Elie Mystal Above the Law

If you give public employees guns, they will turn them on black people.

March 30, 2018

Facebook Must Be Restructured. The FTC Should Take These Nine Steps Now.

Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller The Guardian

If FTC commissioners truly are serious about making Facebook serve the interests of the American public, here is a set of actions they should take

March 30, 2018

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henry 7. reneau, jr.

Approaching the 50th anniversary of MLK’s murder, California poet henry 7 reneau, jr., writes, “There’s a sickness in people”—Malice…Greed…Denial—“in opposition to…common sense.” Not too late to do something about it.