What have you been reading, writing, or making this week? Catch us up in the comments.
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In praise of the digital and public history: now we can all listen to this rare recording of MLK from September 1962: a speech delivered in New York City to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the issuance of Abraham Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Over at xojane, Roxane Gay asks: How do we remember and respect the leaders who have made so much possible?
Brian Lehrer and Farai Chideya host “Dreams for NYC Inspired by MLK” at WNYC.
From the world of sports
Alyssa Park (among many others) takes Grantland to task for its lack of ethics in publishing Caleb Hannan’s feature, “Dr. V’s Magic Putter,” which outed a trans woman.
The Nation‘s Dave Zirin rightly names the reactions to Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman’s post-game interview as “racial coding.” His point reminds us all that sport is a crucible for toxic cultural dynamics we like to pretend don’t exist anymore. See also: Sochi Olympics and homophobia, sports and rape culture, etc. In other football news, this piece from Jack Hamilton at Slate makes some key points about the media’s love affair with Peyton Manning.
What it means to be…
Foreign and dark-skinned in the United States (from Guernica)
A woman who defines her own name (from Elle, by Dvora Meyers)
Adjunct professors as members of the working poor (from the New York Times)
From New York City (with its “life-altering noise,” from the AP)
From New Jersey (as interpreted by Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen)
Around the Internets: From the TBQ Community
TBQ advisory editor Rivka Galchen and Francine Prose on Google, YouTube, and the way we work.
Congratulations to two of our very favorite artists, filmmakers Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman, whose amazing film Remote Area Medical will get US distribution by Cinedigm this spring. We can’t wait to see the film again and we’re equally excited for “This Time Next Year,” their next film which tracks the residents of Long Beach Island, N.J., in the year following Hurricane Sandy (currently in post-production).
Cheers to issue 1 feature writer Jillian Steinhauer (and all of her Hyperallergic colleagues) for a well-deserved shout-out from Holland Cotter in the New York Times.
TBQ issue 2 on translation is coming! With that in mind, we’re reading a lot and taking notice of stories like this one about Lakota Language Immersion Childcare (h/t Feministing).
Image: National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel HDR in Memphis, TN; by Isaac Singleton via Flickr