“There’s a Muslim in America Named Muhammad Ali”
There’s a Muslim in America named Muhammad Ali. Louis Farrakhan, The Trials of Muhammad Ali The Trials of Muhammad Ali opens with contrasting responses to Muhammad Ali, highlighted by the awkward ceremony in which George W. Bush awarded Ali the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Trials of Muhammad Ali The documentary follows footage of that ceremony with Louis Farrakan struggling with Ali’s pron
AlterNet: What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
Pat Tillman (11/6/76 – 4/22/04): A Decade of Forgetting
On the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, David Zirin highlights a nearly concurrent anniversary: Two wrenching anniversaries loom in the world of sports. Both are in many respects conjoined by the dominant narratives of the twenty-first century. Both show how the military adventures of the last decade have even breeched the escapist sanctity of the sports page. Both contain element
4-14-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): The Paradox of Race in the U.S.The paradox of race in the U.S.: In order to become a culture in which race does not matter, race must always matter. Due this coming June, my first granddaughter will be born into this world a bi-racial child during the second term of the