“There was shock in Harlem tonight when word of Dr. King’s murder reached the nation’s largest negro community. Men, women, and children poured into the streets. They appeared dazed.”

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

6 replies on “To End MLK Day: They Appeared Dazed”

  1. If you’re ever in Memphis, go to the Lorraine Motel and Civil Rights Museum. Standing in the room where James Earl Ray was that day is haunting.

  2. There were riots for days in Chicago and many other cities. They reached within a mile of my house (I was 11) and my neighborhood was put under martial law.

  3. Friday night Larry Gossett spoke at my temple. He’s the nearest thing Seattle has to MLK. He won’t live forever. Where are the moral leaders for the future? For that matter, where are the media voices that can’t be bought, as Cronkite was never bought?

  4. I miss Cronkite..I really do. I was only a kid when he was still on the air but my mom watched him every night.

    @5, I’d try Democracy Now for news. And Current TV is becoming more and more another hack for the Democrats anymore, yeah they are going center right especially with the Young Turks.

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