January, 2010Archive

military might or social uplift?! you decide

January 19th, 2010 | Weekly-Reader | 3 comments

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? 1967. Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day where everyone in the United States remembers a [...]

The Watsons Go To Birmingham — 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

January 8th, 2010 | Fat Paragraph | 1 comment

Hey all of you historical fiction lovers! “I’m not scared, I’m just real, real ashamed of myself.” – Kenny Watson (page 200) “Kenny, you ain’t got nothing to be ashamed of” – Byron Watson (page 200) If you’re looking for a book filled with imagination and naïve kids then this is the right book for [...]