Posts tagged Martin Luther King Day
Spreading "Rumors of War"
Spreading "Rumors of War"

I was born in Stuart Circle Hospital, named after the striking sculpture of the Confederate general at the circle’s center. Over the years from the backseat of the family station wagon, I anticipated the galloping horse as we got closer, turning to look back at the rider’s plumed hat and cape. My last image was always of the spurs on the heel his left boot, barely secured in the stirrup. Fortunately, mine is not the only imagination captured by this sculpture. Meet Kehinde Wiley’s 2019 re-imagination of another whinnying horse and purposeful rider.

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Blog: From the Philoso...mariettaKehinde Wiley, "Rumors of War", Richmond VA, VMFA, Martin Luther King Day, social justiceComment
Martin Luther King, 1963, and Me

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his impassioned “I Have a Dream Speech” to over 250,000 civil rights supporters at the Lincoln Memorial, site of the culmination of the historic March on Washington. Two weeks earlier, on August 16, a young girl played in the first integrated tennis match on the public courts of Byrd Park in Richmond, VA. I did not comprehend the meaning or the magnitude of either event at the time. But I do now.

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Blog: From the Philoso...mariettaCleveland Police Dept, economic inequity, Eric Garner, Letter from Birmingham Jail, March on Washington 1963, Martin Luther King Day, NYPD, Rafael Ramos, Tamir Rice, Wenjian LiuComment