In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., The site will display a new template this week. King is an interesting character to me, because he was so complex, and it's interesting to speculate how his views were evolving at the end of his life. There's a really good article written by James Baldwin for Ebony magazine at the time of Malcolm X's death that I'm going to excerpt here later tonight when I have time to find it in my files. The article laments how the civil rights movement was working out a middle ground between the conservative political and social goals most white Americans celebrate today (my words), and the more radical economic and nationalistic goals many Americans fear. The deaths of King and Malcolm X derailed the solidification of this middle ground and sucked some of the momentum out of a greater possible victory for both whites and blacks. Stay tuned for more....

***CORRECTION: The article was written at the time of King's death and was published in Esquire.***

Also, I really like the new colors, but I'm having a hard time letting go of my beloved orange!