King in the Wilderness
Jim reviews what he deems to be the best of three recent TV documentaries on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tom Hanks and 1968
A thoroughly mediocre rendering of a tumultuous year. Mediocre in every way, including aesthetically, concludes Jim DiEugenio.
Listen to the interview with David Giglio (Our Hidden History)
Does Paul Street get paid for this junk?
Jim DiEugenio carefully takes apart and corrects another misguided and misinformed attempt by Paul Street to characterize JFK as economically anti-progressive, complicit with southern racists, and a militarist abroad.
New York Historical Society Features Exhibit on MLK and RFK
Rebel Spirits: Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., February 16, 2018 through May 20, 2018
Coretta Scott King letter opposed Jeff Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination
Read the letter at: The Washington Post
In Honor of Martin Luther King Day, January 16, 2017
In tribute to Dr. King, we rerun three of the best pieces from Probe magazine concerning the civil trial in Memphis which concluded by exonerating James Earl Ray of King's murder.
The 2016 Election, Historical Amnesia and Deep Politics
Extralegal assassinations, unwarranted domestic surveillance, interventionist wars at the behest of corporate interests, torture or other activities of that stripe – these all have their roots in the Dulles era in which covert, corporate power developed into a well-oiled and unaccountable machine running roughshod. These dark forces have continued to operate regardless of who is elected president; and the refusal to face them has caused the Democratic Party to lose its way, writes Alex Sill.
David Kaiser agrees with CTKA about the flaws in Selma
Why You Should Care That Selma Gets LBJ Wrong
by David Kaiser, At: Time
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