by Jemar Tisby | Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared on “Footnotes,” Dr. Jemar Tisby’s Substack. December 10 marks the anniversary of the day in 1964 when Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his work leading the civil rights movement. At 35 years old, he...
by Jack Moline | Dec 5, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman during the middle of the last century. He grew up in a hardscrabble existence, orphaned, itinerant and impoverished. Early in his life, he recovered somewhat unexpectedly from an injury that took most of his vision. To protect the return...