August 29, 2013

National Review's Ugly Civil Rights History

www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/28/national-reviews-ugly-civil-rights-history/195638
"National Review has published numerous articles this week marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s seminal "I have a dream" speech. Given its ugly history, the long-running conservative magazine is ill-suited for such transparent attempts to re-appropriate the civil rights movement. National Review opposed major civil rights legislation and published appallingly racist commentary during the height of the civil rights movement."