Holiday

From the vaults! Rich Rich Juzwiak's awesome remixing of MLK's "Let Freedom Ring" speech titled, MLK in the house. Stick around long enough and you'll also find in the playlist MLK's actual speech, courtesy of the MLK Library.

Coney Island, 1 September 2007

I think unitedstatians have a weird sense of humor. How can you explain celebrating Labor Day on the last day of Summer?

In this household we are not typical americanos by any stretch of the imagination. As good slash-puertoricans, would rather be boogie boarding in Isla Verde than fighting the crowds at Sandy Beach. So we are going to high-tail it to the park and the museum for our last day together, to have some fun.

How are you spending your 'labor' day?

Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech remains one of the great monuments of our civilization. Historians consider it one of the Republic's seminal documents, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address.

Unfortunately, Jefferson and Lincoln lived before the age of video. Luckily for us, King had cameras trained on him when he gave this speech; here it is, freshly youTubed in September of last year.

Daily Gotham has the full text of the speech, here.