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This day in history, March 28: America s worst commercial nuclear accident occurs with a partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania plant
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On MLK Day, consider two marches on Washington
History has sent us an extraordinary Martin Luther King Day gift.
It s a reverse mirror image a photographic negative, as it were of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington that was Dr. King s shining hour.
Want to measure the greatness of the man, and the moment? Just consider all the ways it was
not like Jan. 6, 2021 now, shamefully and eternally, in the history books as the
other March on Washington. © AP File Photo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963. A new documentary MLK/FBI shows how FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used the full force of his federal law enforcement agency to attack King and his progressive, nonviolent cause. That included wiretaps, blackmail and informers, trying to find dirt on King.
When supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, many Americans responded with shock, saying that this kind of unrest doesn’t happen here.
But for many Black and brown Americans, the notion that political violence is foreign to America is simply wrong. From attacks on protests to voter suppression to discriminatory policing, they see political violence as a common feature of U.S. history.
“Americans say one thing about democracy,” said Nathaniel Briggs, 73, a civil rights activist from Teaneck, reflecting on the Jan. 6 siege. “They write laws and have amendments to the Constitution to create a democracy on paper. They say it, but when it comes to my rights to be a human being, they say another thing.”