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Happy Birthday, Dr. King

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Yesterday would have been Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s 82 birthday. He had a dream………

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  1. cassandra m
    January 16, 2012,

    A right delayed is a right denied. – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Important to remember.

  2. Sarah Brady
    January 16, 2012,

    May his dreams live in the hearts of all humanity to come.

  3. cassandra_m
    January 16, 2012,

    More work is to be done, however: Decades After MLK, the School-to-Prison Pipeline is the New Jim Crow

    Indeed, the Children’s Defense Fund research has revealed that black children are criminalized in American schools. They’re almost three times as likely to be suspended from school and are more than four times as likely to be expelled. Even though research proves that building strong relationships with students, not law enforcement, is what puts students on the right track, school districts continue to invest their dwindling resources in having a police presence on campus. Instead of giving students guidance, schools now treat them “as potential violators.”

    The author of this book — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander — is going to be on Fresh Air this afternoon on WHYY.

  4. Jason330
    January 16, 2012,

    On the radio this morning, I heard the Drum Major Instinct” speech for the first time. I was as amazed by the content as I was amazed that I’m 46 years old and just hearing it for the first time.

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