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Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing Hillel Italie Updated:  Tags:  This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble finding...

Photo - of - by W&M Libraries staff |  January 15, 2021 On Jan. 18, 2021, our nation marks the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. W&M Libraries provides access to a host of resources chronicling the life and legacy of King. Below is a curated list of streaming video and other resources:  King in the Wilderness: From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, "King in the Wilderness" follows King durin...

Now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. department of african-american studies at princeton university eddy glad jr. >> senator, good to see you this morning. >> stop. >> jeffrey goldberg is still with us. peter kunhardt the director and executive producer of the new hbo documentary king in the wilderness which looks at the last three years of kings life as told through personal stories from his closest friends and advisers. have a look. >> i do not know that everything

Would come bubbling up. >> peter, we have -- we as americans have this ideal, this martin luther king. and it seems like his life ended for so many americans in 1963 with the remarkable speech and march on washington, and we look through, boy, when he walked through the valley alone, being attacked from the far right and from the far left, talk about just how difficult those final years were for dr. king. >> you know, were all taught about the "i have a dream" speech. its been so overplayed that...

Baldwin uses. im trying to run for the senate, i dont want to go too much. >> thats a joke. >> go on and on. >> theres a line that james baldwin used that king was kind of revolving around, right, thinking about. he says -- excuse my language, he says we invented the n word to justify the crime. we had to invent it in order to justify the crime. and until we ask ourselves the question, why did we need the n word in the first place we will find ourselves over and over again on this racial hamster...

That martin said or did he was quite prepared for. he had felt that in many ways dealing with the south was a more predictable outcome because in the north the racial hypocrisy was very subverted. it gave the appearance of being not like the south. the south was the center of all evil and the north was the place of a higher experience and dr. king said, no, that is not the case. >> interesting. >> peter, thanks so much for being with us. and that was a shock to many people as dr. king went north...

Would shatter our myth that equality has been a shared goal. it can happen. were seeing seismic shifts. black lives matter. metoo and march for our lives are reconfiguring cultural norms and may signal a realignment of our politics. eddy, theres a quote in the mountain top speech from april 3rd at the mason temple. he says, dr. king, all we say to america is be true to what you said on paper. live up to those ideals that you wrote about in the constitution, in the bill of rights and the declarat...