A reflexionar: Recordando a Martin Luther King Jr.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, if you're stuck behind a computer as you take time to reflect, here are some recommendations for you to combine love of history, justice, language and culture:
A few articles in English:
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an old one by Ariel Dorfman: A Latin American Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr.
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a more recent Dorfman article: A Time for Creative Suffering - Martin Luther King Jr.'s Words in a Surveillance World
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a short 5-yr old article: What Martin Luther King Jr. Did for the Latino Civil Rights Movement
A slew of videos in (or subtitled in) Spanish or Portuguese
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Not just for kids: a puppet's mini-biography with slow Spanish and one in Spanish in the first person
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDmkuEjVCBc&w=854&h=480]
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVdtI4DlcA&w=854&h=480]
- King's most famous speech with highlighted Spanish subtitles, and an excerpt with Spanish subtitles of one of King's lesser known speeches
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7C9OympYtQ&w=854&h=480]
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2oDgnV7vfI&w=640&h=480]
- a 15-minute documentary dubbed in Spanish, and a 90-minute History Channel documentary in Spanish
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ6SUzluINM&w=640&h=480]
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwamzBELK4&w=640&h=480]
- a somber BBC documentary in Portuguese
[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myiB7EIvMCE&w=640&h=480]