by PPJC Admin2 | January 16, 2017 | Current News, PPJC Picks
by David Remnick The New Yorker John Lewis represents Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District, one vote of four hundred and thirty-five. He is also the singular conscience of Capitol Hill. Lewis is a dismal institution’s griot, a historical actor and hero capable of...
by PPJC Admin2 | October 15, 2013 | PPJC Picks
By Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani Washington Post The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior...
by PPJC Admin2 | August 28, 2013 | Current News
by Joseph E. Stiglitz New York Times I had the good fortune to be in the crowd in Washington when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his thrilling “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963. I was 20 years old, and had just finished college. It was just a couple...
by PPJC Admin2 | August 28, 2013 | PPJC Picks
Half a century ago, the keynote speaker Martin Luther King took to the Lincoln Memorial to speak truth to power. Today the keynote speaker is a black man who represents power. by Gary Younge The Guardian / UK The rented run-down former church on West 130th Street and...
by PPJC Admin2 | August 23, 2013 | PPJC Picks
Relatively few people know or recall that the Kennedy administration tried to get organizers to call it off; that the FBI tried to dissuade people from coming; that racist senators tried to discredit the leaders. by Katrina van den Heuvel The Nation In this week’s...
