A large crowd of people marches outside Kentucky's capitol

50 Years After the March on Frankfort

March 4, 2014 · by · in Politics

This week, Kentucky will mark the 50th Anniversary of the March on Frankfort. Despite growing up next door in Indiana, I knew nothing about this bit of Civil Rights-era history. On March 5, 1964, more than ten thousand people marched…

What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Wanted – The Daily Show

January 23, 2013 · by · in Politics

On Monday night, The Daily Show’s “Senior Black Correspondent” talked about people misappropriating Dr. King’s name and legacy for their political agendas. After my post yesterday (especially the update to that post), it just seemed too perfect. Partial transcript LARRY…

Juxtaposition: Christians in the Capital

January 9, 2013 · by · in Politics

Yesterday, the inaugural committee announced that Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers, would be giving the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration ceremony on January 21. Less attention was given to the selection of conservative megachurch pastor Louie Giglio, who will…