To understand SPEA Senior Lecturer Bill Foley’s commitment to combating poverty, look no further than a thick black book that sits in his office. It’s a 600-page dissertation he wrote on urban affairs, including the War on Poverty. “I didn’t mean to write quite this much,” he laughs. “It made sense at the time.” Foley… Read more »
Tag: Robert F. Kennedy
MLK’s Assassination: Calming a City Amid Chaos
“I have some very sad news for all of you, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.” – Robert F. Kennedy, April 4, 1968 Fifty years ago, news of… Read more »