Archive for April 4, 2008
Amazing Grace – MP3
In U2’s “Pride (In The Name Of Love),” Bono sings, “Early morning, April 4 / A shot rings out in the Memphis sky.” Martin Luther King, Jr. was, in fact, assassinated at 6:01 pm on April 4, 1968 — forty years ago this very moment. Bono has since conceded his mistake, and expressed his dissatisfaction…
Read MoreMartin Luther King, Jr. On Turning “I” Into “Thou”
Forty years ago tonight, on the balcony of The Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. The following speech, since referred to as “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop,” was delivered April 3, 1968, at the Church of God in Christ Headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. Though King was addressing…
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