In my last lecture I sketched out the history of “ancient Greece”. I don’t think I peddled these “myths“. I do want to contextualize the ancient world of Socrates and Plato for students. Certainly we need to do a much better job at highlighting the genuine multicultural aspects of the region.
Paul Cartledge, the first ever [...]
MLK III, King’s eldest son, on a visit to India where he traced his father’s trip to Gandhi’s memorial.
King, who was 2 when his father came to India, visited several sites including the place where Gandhi was cremated, his memorial and an exhibition of pictures put on by the American Embassy in Delhi.
Another account here [...]
We read a bit of King’s “Our Struggle” this week. King speaks of “injustice” and “self-respect”. He writes that “many black men lost self-respect.” He ends the essay by saying that the conflict really isn’t about the buses.
Yet we believe that, if the method we use in dealing with equality in the buses can eliminate [...]