I made it to eight panels at this year's Conference on World Affairs at CU. Back in college, I would skip most of my classes during CWA week and listen to at least 20, but recently I just pop in for a few interesting talks. Some interesting notes:
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There's a danger of the work and ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. being reduced in the popular consciousness to the I Have A Dream Speech. It was perhaps the best work of oration in 20th Century America, and its anti-segregationist message has become a shared American value, though it was quite radical at the time. Many of Dr. King's speeches ( Read more... )