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Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Q&A: AWKword On Occupy Wall Street, The Power Of Protest Music, And Hearing N.W.A. For The First Time

    N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police" burst into Awkword's life thanks to his baby-sitter. The Manhattan-based rapper visibly remembers the day when his part-time watchdog turned up with a copy of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube's anti-establishment rant; hearing the song kick-started his first forays into writing his ow ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 1, 2012

    Why I Hate Theater! Appalling!

    Read my column now or see the musical later

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Why I Absolutely Detest The Theater!

    Here's my new column, in which I dramatically go through the reasons I absolutely loathe any kind of theater! Some of the radically repellent trends that come to mind: *The jukebox shows that leave you with a gleeful medley that makes your forget how bad it all was *The dumbing down of choreograp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    In Honor of MLK: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins of the 1960s

    Martin Luther King and associates at the Durham, North Carolina, Woolworth's lunch counter after it had been closed by the company, February 16, 1960 Sometimes restaurants are good for more than just eating. In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday, Fork in the Road presents this collection of hi ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 21, 2011

    STEEP THOUGHTS

    Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Behold, the Martin "Loofah" King Exfoliating Glove!

    "I have a clean...and so can you, for just $6.92!"​Have you been searching high and low for that "fantastic novelty house warming gift," as Amazon.com puts it? Have you been dreaming of a way to make it so that your "skin appears always fresh," while scrubbing your ass with the face of the man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2011

    74 Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protests; MLK Memorial Dedication; Demonstrators Killed in Yemen

    ​A total of 74 people were arrested yesterday as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Times Square. 24 people were arrested and charged with criminal trespass at a LaGuardia Pl. Citibank. Witnesses and protesters say some of those arrested were trying to close their acco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Samuel L. Jackson As Martin Luther King, Jr: My Review

    A situation comedy about Martin Luther King Jr. and a motel maid in Memphis in 1968? Involving cigarette-smoking shtick, a pillow fight, and a pleading phone call to a higher-up? Yes, Katori Hall's award-winning play The Mountaintop is all of that.

  • Theater

    September 7, 2011

    Fall Arts: Theater Picks

    A situation comedy about Martin Luther King Jr. and a motel maid in Memphis in 1968? Involving cigarette-smoking shtick, a pillow fight, and a pleading phone call to a higher-up? Yes, Katori Hall's award-winning play The Mountaintop is all of that.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Brooklyn's Summer Concert Schedule Just Got A Whole Lot Joan Jett-ier

    Joan Jett, Cheap Trick, the Monkees, Queen Latifah, Frankie Beverly and Maze, and Shaggy have all been announced as headliners for the 2011 series of Brooklyn Concerts, which are split evenly between the Martin Luther King Concert Series (held at Wingate Field) and the Seaside Summer Concert Series ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Glenn Beck and Martin Luther King -- Together at Last at the Restoring Honor Rally!

    Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday was part religious revival, part group therapy session. "Pray on your knees," Beck roared like a TV evangelist, and he warned that the country was "at a crossroads... we must advance or perish. I choose advance!" Sarah Palin generously extended her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    A Different Kind of 1960's War Demonstration

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 31 The Hawks in May: A Day to Remember By Joe Flaherty On Saturday afternoon past, with the war gods supplying sunshine to heat their passions, the Legions of Decency and Death paraded down Fifth Avenue. Lik ... More >>

  • Film

    January 19, 2010

    Civil Rights Anthems As Youth Ear Candy: Soundtrack for a Revolution

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 31 The Hawks in May: A Day to Remember By Joe Flaherty On Saturday afternoon past, with the war gods supplying sunshine to heat their passions, the Legions of Decency and Death paraded down Fifth Avenue. Lik ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 12, 2010

    A VIBE CULLED ?UEST

    ?uestlove dedicates this warehouse party to MLK

  • Voice Choices

    January 12, 2010

    STILL DREAMING

    Danny Glover speaks at BAM's annual MLK celebration

  • Columns

    September 15, 2009

    Free Will Astrology: September 16 through 22

    Danny Glover speaks at BAM's annual MLK celebration

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Overheard Quotes in the Night

    These utterances are verbatim, folks--they were spewed in all seriousness by various partygoers and clubcrawlers--and it's my moral obligation to pass them on to you without comment. I mean without MUCH comment: "Why did Martin Luther King get credit for 'I have a dream'? It started in Gypsy!" (Sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    MLK Observed

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    Election Remainders: Toni Morrison

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    Interview: Kurt Wagner of Lambchop

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 3, 2008

    Free Will Astrology: June 4 through 10

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2008

    Souvenirs and Slime: Inside the Greatest Collection of Presidential Campaign Memorabilia

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Remembering Martin Luther King 40 Years Later

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2008

    MLK Day Special: A Pretty Sunset, "Got MLK?" MP3

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 25, 2007

    Horoscope

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 23, 2007

    Horoscope

    Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

  • People

    June 6, 2006

    Love Actually

    Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day

  • Dining

    February 14, 2006

    Décor, D'Accord!

    An unexpected taste of Vietnam in Harlem's Little West Africa

  • News

    January 10, 2006

    Mixed Like Me

    Interracial roadtrip documentary takes Civil Rights out of monochrome

  • NYC Life

    January 3, 2006

    King of Peace: Remembering the Great Civil Rights Leader

    Interracial roadtrip documentary takes Civil Rights out of monochrome

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Marching to Montgomery: The Cradle Did Rock

    Interracial roadtrip documentary takes Civil Rights out of monochrome

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1968

    Interracial roadtrip documentary takes Civil Rights out of monochrome

  • Screens

    September 13, 2005

    Watching the Defective

    What the foreign press really thinks of us (hint: it's not all kittens and rainbows)

  • News

    June 21, 2005

    Girl Fight

    Students say a Marine Park brawl was kid stuff. Prosecutors are calling it race rage.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2005

    Morning Report 1/20/05
    Masquerade Ball

    Students say a Marine Park brawl was kid stuff. Prosecutors are calling it race rage.

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2005

    Mourning Report 1/17/05
    King Speaks to Us

    Students say a Marine Park brawl was kid stuff. Prosecutors are calling it race rage.

  • NYC Life

    January 4, 2005

    Dreamcatcher: Honoring the King of Peace and Equality

    Students say a Marine Park brawl was kid stuff. Prosecutors are calling it race rage.

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Get Mad. Act Out. Re-Elect George Bush.

    Protesters risk playing into GOP hands

  • NYC Life

    February 10, 2004

    Old-school: Looking back on the civil rights movement

    Protesters risk playing into GOP hands

  • NYC Life

    January 6, 2004

    Listings

    Protesters risk playing into GOP hands

  • Columns

    June 10, 2003

    Horoscope

    Protesters risk playing into GOP hands

  • Specials

    February 11, 2003

    Letters

    Protesters risk playing into GOP hands

  • News

    January 14, 2003

    An Indispensable Gay Man

    His 1963 March on Washington 'Woke Up America'

  • News

    January 7, 2003

    Target: Martin Luther King

    A New Look at America's Most Unresolved Assassination

  • Books

    July 9, 2002

    Love and Bullets

    A New Look at America's Most Unresolved Assassination

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Rescuing Martin Luther King Jr.

    A Craving for Equal Justice

  • News

    July 3, 2001

    What’s Next for the Left?

    Politics Beyond Rhetoric

  • NYC Life

    January 9, 2001

    Four-Letter Law

    Recently, a Judge Threw Out a Case in Which the Defendant Cursed at a Police Officer. Ever Felt the Urge?

  • NYC Life

    January 9, 2001

    Listings

    Recently, a Judge Threw Out a Case in Which the Defendant Cursed at a Police Officer. Ever Felt the Urge?

  • Books

    January 11, 2000

    King Spin

    Recently, a Judge Threw Out a Case in Which the Defendant Cursed at a Police Officer. Ever Felt the Urge?

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