http://www.drmatthewwhitaker.com/weblog/ en mario@bonsaimarketing.com Copyright 2006 2006-05-19T23:07:00-07:00 http://www.drmatthewwhitaker.com/weblog/entry/http-wwwlibraryjournalcom-article-ca6350117html/ Blog “In a highly critical Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Taylor Branch questioned the wisdon of a nonprofit coalition of Atlanta residents that is going to spend $32 million for the Martin Luther King Papers, and move them to Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta and King’s alma mater? Why might this move be problematic and/or positive?

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]]> 2006-05-05T23:04:00-07:00 http://www.drmatthewwhitaker.com/weblog/entry/have-average-americans-forgotten/ Blog Have average American’s forgotten about the devastated Gulf Coast, particularly New Orleans? What will the long-term effects of the massive devastation and displacement in New Orleans be? Does the severe and disproportionate impact on African Americans and poor people in New Orleans constitute a need for what scholar and activist Robin D.G. Kelley calls “another reconstruction”?

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