In his new book, Going Down Jericho Road, historian Michael Honey chronicles the campaign which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was working on at the time of his death. Honey is a former civil liberties organizer and a professor of ethics, gender and labor studies and American history at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
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Jan. 16 · Burma is the poster child for nightmarish 21st-century ills, says former U.N. official Thant Myint-U, whose family is from Burma.(His grandfather, U Thant, served as U.N. secretary-general.) In The River of Lost Footsteps -- part memoir, part history -- Thant explores the problems plaguing the land of his ancestors.