Tag Archives: Martin Luther King

the fifties: getting funky with disaffection

Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s? Hardly the Golden Age many make it out to be. If we turn over the shiny stone, there were more than a few creepy-crawlers underneath… James Dean created a character who reflected the … Continue reading

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stamping out those millenarians

In times of stress, look for the prophets of an earthly paradise. America may be ready for its own millennial cult… The main American Indian movements, Pontiac, Code of Handsome Lake and the Ghost Dance, and the hundreds of others … Continue reading

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to be third

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: I AM THIRD Penguin Books, 2001 Photograph: archival (via Bettman/Corbis) Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes Art Director: Paul Buckley Happy Birthday to the “Kansas Comet,” Gale Sayers (b. 1943)! I AM THIRD refers to 1) God, 2) Family, … Continue reading

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letting a good time roll

Joan Baez was introduced to her first large gathering of afficionados by Chicago’s ebullient troubadour Bob Gibson, at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and the audience, which had come to see the famous Oscar Brand, Odetta, Earl Scruggs, and Jean … Continue reading

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the blue flame this time

James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading

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Day-O : cut him some slack?

There was a great deal of controversy over jazz and swing music in Nazi Germany, with a public antipathy towards it, yet for the higher ups the debate was more nuanced. To even conceive of Goebbels as a jazz afficionnado … Continue reading

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fight club

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) MLK Day… Cover of the Day: Yes, we only have a few rounds left, but there’s no time like the present. Robert Newman and David Cowles already have great … Continue reading

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homeward bound: the strange figure in the back room

Accordingly, because a homeland is not only territory but a primal element of personal and national identity, the division of the Land of Israel into two states is not only the sole political solution, it is also a moral imperative. … Continue reading

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Jackie : putting pins in the valley of the dolls

A product of her times. Or simply another variant on the white liberal Eastern establishment, make that neo-liberal and what appears to be appallingly ethno-centric and racist, filled with any number of twisted ideas as a defense mechanism in guarding … Continue reading

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on pain of death: the bonding process

The dangers of militarism.And its connection with the two other ” triplets of evil” named by Martin Luther King Jr. : racism and consumerism. GRACE LEE BOGGS: I’m sorry, but I think if we stick to those categories of race, … Continue reading

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