Mon. 1/18 - When the FBI Spied on Martin Luther King Jr.

Several of the women who influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and left their own marks on the civil rights movement. A new documentary tracking the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent Black activists, using documentation recently released by the National Archives. And a run-down of the many ways this week’s US Presidential Inauguration will differ from years past.

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Links:

• From Coretta Scott King to Ella Baker: These women's ideas were key to MLK's work (NBC News)
• Documentary Exposes How The FBI Tried To Destroy MLK With Wiretaps, Blackmail (NPR)
• When the FBI Spied on MLK (The Atlantic) 
• The FBI and Martin Luther King (The Atlantic) 
• The Filmmaker as Historian: Sam Pollard and ‘MLK/FBI’ (NY Times)
• How LA's Amanda Gorman became Biden's inauguration poet (LA Times)
• Inauguration Playlist (Biden Inaugural, Twitter)
• What Time Does The Inauguration Start? And What Else To Know : Biden Transition Updates (NPR)
• Inauguration Guide: Schedule of Events, Performances and How to Watch (Wall Street Journal)
• Inauguration Schedule (Biden Inaugural)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter