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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 anyone to report on her death because of the quickly spreading coronavirus. Plans for a memorial tr...

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 during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to hi...

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 king's 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, we're all taught about the "i have a dream" speech. it's been so overplayed that that's the image people have in their head. but as king himself said, it turned into a nightmare ...

Baldwin uses. i'm trying to run for the senate, i don't want to go too much. >> that's a joke. >> go on and on. >> there's 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 wheel. and king was grappling with that. >> along those lines, peter, i just saw an article thi...