2: Unfulfilled Dreams

Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and a community organizer, talks about Martin Luther King's legacy, the fight for racial justice today and why she doesn't look forward to Martin Luther King Day. 

Vincent Harding was Martin Luther King's longtime friend and advisor. They first met in 1958 when King was laid up in bed, recovering from an assassination attempt. Harding said King's death made some people in the civil rights movement wonder if the country was worth fighting fo ... Show More

Clayborne Carson, the director of the King Papers Project, says Martin Luther King Jr. was an "accidental" civil rights leader. Carson argues we created another King -- someone he never was -- the moment he died. 

Wikipedia has gotten a lot of flak over the years for being inaccurate and untrustworthy. But in 2010, Wikimedia, the global movement behind Wikipedia, began recruiting professors from major U.S. universities to assign the work of editing Wikipedia articles to their students. 

Le nom "Wikipedia" est un mot-valise formé de deux éléments : "wiki" et "encyclopedia" (encyclopédie en anglais). 1. "Wiki" :Le terme "wiki" vient du mot hawaïen "wiki-wiki", qui signifie "rapide" ou "vite". Il a été popularisé dans le domaine de l'informatique par le programmeur ... Show More

Rerun : Wikipedia launched with the cheery words “Hello World!” on 15th January, 2001. The project arrived almost by accident, as the side-project of a more serious effort by tech entrepreneur Jimmy Wales to create an online encyclopedia called Nupedia. In this episode, Arion, Re ... Show More

"The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson Category: Politics 

"Born in the USA" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Category: Biography & Memoir 

How the largely forgotten race between Al Gore and George W. Bush roiled Florida long before anyone had ever heard of a hanging chad. For a full list of sources, check out the Fiasco website.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Eugénie Bastié nous entraîne au cœur d'une enquête révélatrice sur les dérives idéologiques qui gangrènent l'encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia.Alors que Wikipédia est censée être la plus belle réussite collaborative d'Internet, offrant un accès gratuit et universel à la connaissanc ... Show More

Today's motivation is all about succeeding in spite of adversity. Audio Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yv6r8Kl4bM More about Neil: Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the Universit ... Show More

"The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Charles Seife Category: History