#mlk boulevard

[kontextmaschine]

Hear Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to as MLK, like "em-ell-kay", like FDR or JFK or LBJ, more than I remember in the '80s and '90s.

Kind of wonder if it has to do with the relative frequencies of how often he gets invoked as a prominent American figure and how often as a street name

[hereticallyeverafter]

[heddabee]

I happily unfollowed this guy I know who, as part of a protest the other day was in a crowd blocking the street and not letting a city bus get through, when I told him the bus needed to be allowed by, he agreed and when I asked him to help clear people, he shrugged and walked away. anarchism without responsibility for the people whose neighborhood you're disrupting is just assholism. no time for that

[musickmag7]

MLK Boulevard: A Snapshot of King’s Dream Deferred

[soulbrotherv2]

Student researches U.S. streets named for Martin Luther King Jr.

In one of his popular television specials, comedian Chris Rock points to the irony of streets and roads named after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., left, — they’re located in some of the most violent neighborhoods in the U.S., even though King stood for non-violence.

“If a friend calls you on the telephone and says they’re lost on Martin Luther King Boulevard and they want to know what they should do, the best response is ‘Run!’” Rock famously advised.

UNT graduate student Eric Katzenberger, below, decided to prove or disprove the stereotype held by Rock and others by identifying the location of all streets or roads specifically named for the civil rights leader and demographic information of the neighborhood in which the streets and roads are located, using geographic information systems and data from a past U.S. census.

[Continue to view the results of Katzenberger's study.]

[soulbrotherv2]

MLK Boulevard: A Snapshot of King's Dream Deferred

A Look at MLK Boulevards Across the U.S. in 2 Minutes.  [source]

[heddabee]

"Some kids threw a traffic cone at me while I was riding my bike down MLK," Andy Sweeney wrote next to the photo of his broken teeth on Reddit.

[heddabee]

Union Market, MLK Boulevard, Portland OR