Stream a MLK-inspired flick By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
Published: January 22, 2021, 6:09am
Share: Dr. Martin Luther King in Sam Pollard s MLK/FBI. (IFC Films)
To continue the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and looking ahead to Black History Month, it’s always worth learning more about the venerated civil rights leader, and his message of racial and class equality and nonviolent protest that remains as relevant and urgent today as it was in the 1960s. Here are a selection of streaming films to educate, illuminate and spark conversation about MLK, his legacy, the history of the fight for racial justice in the United States and those who continue his work to this day.
Here’s a selection of streaming films to educate, illuminate and spark conversation about MLK, his legacy, the history of the fight for racial justice in the United States and those who continue his work to this day.
January 15, 2021
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Today is Saturday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2021. There are 349 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 16, 2020, the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump opened in the Senate, with senators standing and swearing an oath of “impartial justice.” Trump again denounced the proceedings as a “hoax,” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said new evidence reinforced the need to call additional witnesses.
On this date:
In 1865, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson, is believed to have inspired the expression, “Forty acres and a mule.”)
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.