MLK

FAIR has recirculated a 1995 Media Beat article by Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen on the Martin Luther King you won't see on tv today. Judging from the media's depiction of King's career, Solomon and Cohen argue, one is lead to believe that King was assassinated in 1965 and not 1968.

Meanwhile, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution runs a story about how King's dream is fading "as suburban sprawl leads to racial separation." The AJC's Andrew Mollison writes that "a new study shows that the nation is 'clearly regressing' from his dream of an America in which black and white children study and play together, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University reports."