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Architect of Michael Jordan's Nike Deal Dies at 88

The Architect
of the Air Jordan
Dies at 88

OBITUARY

Sep 3, 2025 6:11 AM CDT

The Architect of the Air Jordan Dies at 88

Hall of Famer George Raveling 'blessed my life with wisdom,' says Jordan, helped change athletic apparel

(Newser) - George Raveling, a Hall of Fame basketball coach who played a role in Michael Jordan signing a landmark endorsement deal with Nike, has died. He was 88. Raveling's family said Tuesday in a statement that he had "faced cancer with courage and grace," reports the AP . "...

New Generation
Commits to King's Dream

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Aug 26, 2023 5:20 PM CDT

New Generation Commits to King's Dream

Thousands mark 60th anniversary of March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

(Newser) - Thousands of people on Saturday retraced the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, declaring his dream unrealized 60 years later and calling out new threats it faces. Speakers detailed the national changes since as many as 250,000 gathered at the Lincoln...

MLK's First
'I Have a Dream'
Speech Is Revealed

Aug 11, 2015 7:30 PM CDT

MLK's First 'I Have a Dream' Speech Is Revealed

Long-lost reel-to-reel tape turned up in North Carolina library

(Newser) - Thanks in part to the "mysterious appearance" of a box containing an old reel-to-reel tape and bearing the message "Please do not erase," Martin Luther King Jr.'s original "I Have a Dream" speech has been replayed in public for the first time. It's...

Celebration of MLK's 'Dream' Speech Under Way

Obama:
King's Words
'Belong to
the Ages'

Aug 28, 2013 3:44 PM CDT

Obama: King's Words 'Belong to the Ages'

Thousands honor MLK at Lincoln Memorial

(Newser) - Some excerpts from today's speeches at the Lincoln Memorial honoring the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, from CNN , the AP , and NBC News .

President Obama: "His words belong to the ages, possessing a power and prophecy unmatched in

...

Martin Luther King's
Work Not Yet Done

OPINION

Aug 28, 2013 1:50 PM CDT

Martin Luther King's Work Not Yet Done

But we should remember MLK as modern-day founding father: opinions

(Newser) - Fifty years later, tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech—and reflections on the speech and the man—abound. A sampling:

King was a modern-day founding father, "equal to Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Hamilton," writes Nicholas Burns in the Boston Globe

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Marchers Honor MLK in DC

Aug 24, 2013 12:54 PM CDT

Marchers Honor MLK in DC

Rally at Lincoln Memorial marks 50th anniversary of speech

(Newser) - Tens of thousands of marchers kicked off the 50th anniversary commemorations of the March on Washington today, honoring the civil rights progress made since Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. But they also lamented what they called new attacks on racial and social equality....

Washington Post:
'We Blew It'
on MLK's
Dream Speech

OPINION

Aug 24, 2013 11:26 AM CDT

Washington Post: 'We Blew It' on MLK's Dream Speech

An editor laments scant coverage 50 years ago

(Newser) - Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of the most famous speeches in the nation's history 50 years ago, but you'd never have known it by picking up the Washington Post the next day. In all its coverage of the civil rights march of Aug. 28, 1963, the words...

'I Have a Dream'
© All Rights Reserved

OPINION

Aug 23, 2013 1:45 PM CDT

'I Have a Dream' © All Rights Reserved

Martin Luther King's family keeps tight control of historic speech: Lauren Williams

(Newser) - With the 50^th anniversary of Martin Luther King's iconic speech on the National Mall coming up, Lauren Williams at Mother Jones has a dream of her own. "I have a dream," she writes, that black and white children will be able "to sit down together at...

MLK Would Be
Ashamed of Us

paul krugman

Jan 16, 2012 8:56 AM CST

MLK Would Be Ashamed of Us

Rising income inequality is cementing class system: Paul Krugman

(Newser) - If Martin Luther King were to see today's America, would he be proud? Paul Krugman thinks not. King dreamed his children would "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Today, we've become "a nation that judges...

Obama: King
'Stirred Our
Conscience'

MLK DEDICATION

Oct 16, 2011 12:17 PM CDT

Obama: King 'Stirred Our Conscience'

Thousands attend dedication of Martin Luther King Jr Monument

(Newser) - Forty-three years after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin's bullets, the nation's first black president today led an all-star tribute to the civil rights activist who "stirred our conscience" and made our Union "more perfect." "I know we will overcome,"...

Sharpton: 'They
Have the Platform,
We Have the Dream'

Aug 28, 2010 5:21 PM CDT

Sharpton: 'They Have the Platform, We Have the Dream'

He stages rally to counter Glenn Beck's

(Newser) - Al Sharpton led his counter-rally to Glenn Beck's today, declaring: "They may have the mall, but we have the message. They may have the platform, but we have the dream." Sharpton and other activists gathered to commemorate the 47th anniversary of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech,...

'America Is Better
Than Glenn Beck'

opinion

Aug 28, 2010 10:18 AM CDT

'America Is Better Than Glenn Beck'

Bob Herbert, Charles Blow vent about today's rally

(Newser) - Bob Herbert and Charles Blow use their New York Times columns today to rip Glenn Beck's DC rally:

Herbert: "America is better than Glenn Beck," he writes, criticizing the Fox persona as "a provocateur who likes to play with matches in the tinderbox of racial and ethnic

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Glenn Beck Now
Owns Civil Rights

DANA MILBANK

Aug 28, 2010 7:56 AM CDT

Glenn Beck Now Owns Civil Rights

Mostly because he says so

(Newser) - It's the dawn of Glenn Beck's much-debated Restoring Honor rally on the anniversary of MLK's Dream, and Washington Post scribe Dana Milbank—the author of a forthcoming Beck biography—takes a somewhat incredulous look at the white guy with the borderline racist track record and his bid to co-opt the...

My Dad, MLK, Would Back
Glenn Beck's Right to Rally

martin luther king IIi

Aug 25, 2010 10:30 AM CDT

My Dad, MLK, Would Back Glenn Beck's Right to Rally

But remember that he rejected 'hateful rhetoric'

(Newser) - The son of Martin Luther King Jr. says his father "would be the first to say" that Glenn Beck and his supporters have the right to rally in Washington this weekend—the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech. But he'd like to remind everyone of a...