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Building ‘beloved community’: Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh

Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called “beloved community.” One of the people he invited was the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet and mindfulness teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.

The Conversation · Jan 14

Martin Luther King Jr. was ahead of his time in pushing for universal basic income

Each year on the holiday that bears his name, Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for his immense contributions to the struggle for racial equality. What is less often remembered but equally important is that King saw the fight for racial equality as deeply intertwined with economic justice.

The Conversation · Jan 13

Why MTG says she's done trolling

It's not like she has anything else to offer

Salon · Jan 2

Declaration of Independence’s promises ring out today as loudly as they did for Lincoln, FDR and through 249 years of US history

The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection.

The Conversation · Dec 4, 2025

New Star Trek Story Is Spinning A Classic TV Episode To Honor Both Nichelle Nichols And Uhura In An Unexpected Way

This is awesome.

Cinemablend · Nov 21, 2025

Watchdog group Public Citizen calls on OpenAI to scrap AI video app Sora, citing deepfake risks

The group is raising alarm about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt.

Euronews · Nov 12, 2025

Watchdog group Public Citizen demands OpenAI withdraw AI video app Sora over deepfake dangers

Tech advocacy group Public Citizen has demanded OpenAI withdraw Sora 2, citing safety concerns and threats to democracy from the AI video generator

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2025

Musk could be paid $1tn. Nvidia’s worth $5tn. Yet America’s poor are struggling to eat

We may be in a golden age for the super-rich – but it doesn’t feel that way for the 42 million Americans who use Snap

The Guardian - US · Nov 11, 2025

Bob Brown: ‘Being an environmentalist is sensible. I like defying the growth mentality because it’s irrational’

At 80 years old, the trailblazing environmentalist on the state of activism, optimism and why he is comfortable with the concept of his own ‘perpetual annihilation’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 7, 2025

“It made me want to write a song that, if it ever got back to the people going through those troubles, might just help them a little bit”: The intricate genius and powerful subtext behind a Beatles acoustic gem

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement

MusicRadar · Oct 30, 2025