Consistent with America’s past, progressives claim to push for equality for all yet cleave to political norms that stifle transformative change for those who need it the most.
It’s not often that two men known by the letters of their names – one who rapped about “…a hard knock life…” and one who spent his career making Americans’ lives smoother – can be mentioned in the same sentence.
And yet, with the efforts of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to inform Philadelphians of the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success through events from June 10 through June 21, the Brooklyn native and the late Nobel Prize winner — MLK Jr. — now share a bond in the never-ending fight for equality in America. Ironically, they share another unanticipated tie as well: critiques of their well-intended sacrifice by “allies” that suddenly opposed their tactics and approaches based on differing…
