Ohio overcame struggle to be an early adopter of the MLK Day holiday
Ohio enacted its MLK Jr. Day holiday in 1975. The federal government didn't follow suit until 1983, and the last state came 25 years later.
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JONAH RASKIN : LITERATURE | To cancel or not to cancel Jack London
By Jonah Raskin | Jack London’s ashes, which are buried under a rock on Sonoma Mountain in Northern California, must be calling wildly to the living. In a new movie just out, that’s titled Jack London’s Martin Eden, Russ Brissenden, one of the main characters, who also figures in the novel, Martin Eden, is an African-American. The film also features two women of color who are labor activists and socialists. In London’s 1908 book there are no Black characters or people of color. Brissenden is as white as can be. In fact, there are no significant Black characters in any of London’s...
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