Highlights This Month
Historians Fear MLK's Legacy Being Lost
By Deepti Hajela, Associated Press
Nearly 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some say his legacy is being frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message.
"Everyone knows - even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King - can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream' speech," said Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo. "No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this guy had a dream. We don't know what that dream was."
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The ABCs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy
Mike Luckovich
Let the tribes decide what's best for them
Barry Lewis, Times Herald-Record (NY)
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Ken Mitchell
I've got a problem with letting the U.S. government decide what's in the best interest for Indian tribes.
This, as opposed to letting the Indian tribes decide for themselves what's in THEIR best interest.
How's that for a novel approach?
I might have been snoozing in science and out of it in algebra, but I did pay enough attention in history to recall how the United States allowed the Indians' land to be taken from them and how treaties arranged by the United States were forever being broken.
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Why I Got Angry After New Hampshire: The White Curtain and the Possibility of Hope
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Black Commentator
 I have not been an Obama supporter. On the issues, I have felt that Kucinich and Edwards are clearer and more on point. They have been talking about some real changes in domestic and foreign policy, and I applaud that. I have been disappointed that they have not grasped race far more than they have, but they tend to lean in the right direction.
But that is not why I am writing this piece.
I got angry after the New Hampshire primary. Going into the primary, Senator Obama had a 13-point lead over Senator Clinton. Senator Clinton had virtually issued her concession speech. Yet, Senator Clinton came out on top.
There have been a number of reasons offered by pundits as to what happened:
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Bob Englehart
Affirmative Action and the Civil Rights Movement: An interview with René Redwood
The positive impact of affirmative action is a fact in our daily lives
InMotion Magazine
René Redwood (at the time of this interview was) executive director of Americans for a Fair Chance, a nonpartisan consortium of six of the nation's most prominent civil rights legal groups. Prior to holding this position, she was Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. Also, she was executive director of the Glass Ceiling Commission. The interview was conducted (by phone from San Diego) for In Motion Magazine by Nic Paget-Clarke, January 9, 1999. For more information see: The History of Affirmative Action Policies.
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The ABCs of Nooses and Hate Symbols
A recent wave of noose incidents – particularly those on school campuses – has raised alarm among adults and questions from young people. The following ABC package helps teachers address the subject of hate symbols.
By Carrie Kilman, Southern Poverty Law Center
 In the months since the Jena 6 made national headlines, communities across the country have been rattled by a sharp increase in noose incidents – up to 50 since September, according to figures from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Some were perpetrated out of overt racism and a wish to instill fear. Others probably were committed by people who were ignorant of the full scope of the noose's bloody symbolism.
The sheer quantity of these incidents, coupled with the fact that many occurred on school campuses at the hands of students, has sparked curiosity and questions from young people, leaving educators grappling with how to respond.
Three things are clear:
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