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...“When I look at all the monuments around here,” she says, gesturing towards a new sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr, “I feel proud to be in Massachusetts.”...
...Temkin’s chapters, including “leading when you have little power” and “how to lead under tyranny”, take us from Machiavelli to Martin Luther King....
...Students pour across the stage brandishing banners; news reporters confront police; politicians gurn and wave; Tariq Ali, Andy Warhol and Aretha Franklin float through....
...Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement used blue jeans to signify solidarity in both the black and white working class....
...across city streets on both sides of the Atlantic; in Chicago, the US Democratic National Convention unfolds against a backdrop of violent clashes between protesters and police; Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther...
...(The subject of the fourth series will be Martin Luther King Jr.) Franklin had been in touch with Parks during her final years. “She wanted me to write a stage musical of her life....
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...It also provides a breakdown of the era’s music, with songs by James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Aretha Franklin. In short, there’s a lot going on....
...Conventions hosted the crowds, without the guests of honour — until Franklin D Roosevelt broke with tradition in 1932, appearing in person to promise “a new deal for the American people"....
...A few years later, he attended the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I have a dream” speech....
...“It’s long overdue,” Mr Biden said before paraphrasing a famed quotation by Martin Luther King Jr: “Once again, America has bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.”...
...Busts of civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and labour leader César Chavez sit near his political hero Bobby Kennedy, and a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt has replaced Mr Trump’s choice...
...I guess neither Franklin Roosevelt nor his New Deal had come to mind as the marketing material for the “fireside chat” was being written. In California, it is the future that matters, not the past....
...The older man pointed to the Capitol, saying he had watched Franklin D Roosevelt’s swearing in from there while serving coffee in the Senate lounge....
...Three months later, he introduced Franklin, a boy whose black father is fighting in Vietnam, while Charlie Brown’s white father is safely at home being a barber....
...His one adornment is his West Point ring, as red at its core as the one on General Patton in Franklin Schaffner’s Oscar-drenched biopic. (He is a film nut.)...
...Franklin Roosevelt managed it, but let’s remember what he discovered: the resistance of the privileged is bound to be ferocious....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt had money. John F Kennedy had money. It’s not what your bank account is. It’s what you believe. It’s what you’re fighting for. Money doesn’t define me....
...She performed it at the funeral of the soul singer Luther Vandross in 2005, and at the White House in 2014 for President Obama, who sang it himself a year later at the eulogy for Senator Clementa Pinckney...
...In April, Martin Luther King was assassinated, sparking riots across the country. In June, Senator Bobby Kennedy was shot, too. The war in Vietnam was claiming more than 500 American lives a month....
...He associated with luminaries such as Martin Luther King, Robert F Kennedy and the actress Jane Fonda, to whom he was married for nearly 20 years....
...told through the lives of its pioneers: Tim Berners-Lee is cast as a modern John Wycliffe-figure, paving the way for a democratic opening up of the internet; Steve Jobs as an arch-disrupter in the Martin Luther...
...You’d hear George Michael, then Luther Vandross.” I ask whether she finds that London’s music scene is more racially mixed than in the US....
...Martin Luther King was the last of 10 speakers on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that August afternoon....
...There has been no Martin Luther King to his Lyndon Johnson, no John Maynard Keynes to his Franklin Roosevelt. Nor is it easy to imagine such folks materialising....
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