by drkeithcox | Dec 23, 2020 | Dispatches
This is the woman whose statue will replace that of Robert E. Lee in the US CapitolWhen Barbara Johns was just 16 years old, she led a walkout at her high school to protest poor and unequal school conditions. The moment is one that many historians believe helped...
by drkeithcox | Dec 18, 2020 | Dispatches
I read an article this morning that considered a recent book The Consumer Citizen by Ethan Porter. The gist of Porter’s argument is that Americans don’t think like citizens but rather consumers. The difference is that citizenship implies...
by drkeithcox | Nov 19, 2020 | Dispatches, randomthoughts
Opinion | Dolly Parton is the superhero America needs in 2020 American audiences spent more than a decade worshiping at the big-screen altar of comic book characters. But the tumult of 2020 demanded a very different kind of superhero. You can’t thump a...
by drkeithcox | Nov 11, 2020 | Dispatches
Fact denial is the motive engine of the Trumpist movement in the United States. Many people believe Mr. Trump’s incessant lying manifests a character flaw, or perhaps mental illness. Others think it represents a strategy; that Trump is playing “4-D...
by drkeithcox | Feb 23, 2020 | Defiance, Dispatches
It is a revolutionary world that we all live in; and thus, as I have said in Latin America and Asia and in Europe and in my own country, the United States, it is the young people who must take the lead. Thus you, and your young compatriots everywhere have had thrust...
by drkeithcox | Feb 22, 2020 | Defiance, Dispatches
Congressman John Lewis speaking at The Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center’s Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture series in Oakland.