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Never Again – International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Rabbi Heschel with MLK, Jr. on the march from Selma in 1965. Heschel is second from right. (Image” Duke University, Abraham Heschel papers archive)
New post up at Liberty Unyielding. Enjoy!
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Posted in Civil Rights, History, Left-wing themes, Political commentary, Popular Culture, Social policy | Tags: Ava DuVernay, civil rights movement, Dovid Efune, Epistemic closure, ideological narrative, Ideology, Left-liberalism, march from Selma 1965, Martin Luther King Jr., morality plays, movie Selma, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Race politics, religious inspiration civil rights movement, Selma, Susannah Heschel