Archive for January 17th, 2005
Will the Real Men Please Stand Up?
Monday, January 17th, 2005My last shout-out of the evening in honor of MLK comes from the son of a civil rights radical, who ironically suffered a similar fate as Dr. King (although for apparently different reasons). The late Tupac Shakur, son of Afeni Shakur of the Black Panther Party, grew up never knowing his father. According to his [...]
In Memory of a Hero
Monday, January 17th, 2005Another year, another excuse to play. For many that’s all the third Monday of January represents. A day off. A break from everyday. An opportunity to sleep late, skip school without punishment, run errands, shop, whatever. But this day is much more than that. It reminds us each year of a modern prophet, a proclaimer [...]