Remembering MLK
<p>The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., walked the picket line the day before an assassin's bullet ended his life on April 4, 1968. A Nobel Prize-winner courted by presidents, King spent his final hours with Memphis garbage collectors fighting for the right to unionize. As we remember King's legacy on the anniversary of his death, the struggle for economic justice continues amid new assaults on workers' collective bargaining rights, the worst income inequality since the Great Depression, and irresponsible budget cuts that will hurt the most vulnerable.</p>
Honor the Dignity of Workers
by Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.
The Death Penalty in Dixie
<p>Despite both recent Supreme Court jurisprudence and the widely held American assumption that official racial discrimination ended with Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s and 1970s, the legacy of official racial discrimination is alive and well in the last capital of the Confederacy—Caddo Parish (Shreveport), Louisiana. </p>
The enduring legacy of the Confederate flag and racism
By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.
Despite both recent Supreme Court jurisprudence and the widely held American assumption that official racial discrimination ended with Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s and 1970s, the legacy of official racial discrimination is alive and well in the last capital of the Confederacy—Caddo Parish (Shreveport), Louisiana.
Race, Racism, and Whiteness
By Dr. Alex Mikulich
Introduction
Over 100 years ago, in his introduction to The Souls of Black Folk, W.E. B. Du Bois wrote: “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” Despite claims that we live in a “post-racial” society after the historic election of Barack Obama, the fact remains that the color line and racial hierarchy endures in the 21st century.
Audacity of Eucharistic Hope in the Age of Obama
“Do this in memory of me:” Remembering Broken Bodies, Remembering Ourselves: Engaging the Impasse of White Racism through the Audacity of Eucharistic Hope in the Age of Obama
By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D., JSRI Research Fellow
The paper was originally presented to the Catholic Theological Society of America’s 2009 Annual Meeting to a Panel Selected by the President-Elect of CTSA.