Tuesday, January 20, 2009

MLK Jr. B-day

My evening drawing sections are creating images commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.  His birthday was last Thursday, 80 years old.  This Mahalia Jackson song, "I've been Buked and I've been Scorned" is the one she sang at the march on Washington in 1963 when King delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech.  It was Jackson who shouted from the crowd, "Tell them about the dream, Martin." That may have been what propelled King into the "I have a dream" speech, which was originally titled, "Normalcy, Never Again." The drawings should be interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing them.



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  2. ShawnJanuary 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM

    That was a very thought provoking video. It's amazing the impact a single man can have on history and the world in life and even after death.

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  3. brian h. jonesJanuary 21, 2009 at 9:08 AM

    We're all hoping for a lot of positive changes, not just in our country, but around the world. Clearly it will take efforts from all us to make those changes possible. As one of my students said last night, MLK had a dream and Obama is the realization of that dream. It's been a long road and an extremely bumpy road the past eight years. Now we wake from the dream, face the realities, and get our creative collective moving for a better planet and more peaceful and free inhabitants of that planet. Obama can't do it without all of us helping.

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  4. Amanda ThompsonApril 28, 2009 at 8:14 PM

    This video makes you think about how one man has made such an impact on many people...is more people were like him and strived for what they belleived in would it make a differnce?.. i think so..but there are not that many people out there that are willing to try...the music to this video was very touching aswell

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