Jan. 18, 2021
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
