Robert Kennedy Archives - Harlem World Magazine

Harlem’s James Baldwin “Pin Drop Speech” At Cambridge University, 1965 (Video)

Harlem's James Baldwin delivers an earth-shattering speech with Harlem as his starting point in talking about all black folks at Cambridge University during a debate with William F. Buckley in 1965.Continue reading

Op-Ed: Democracy Depends On Exchanging Ideas. Do Leaders Listen?

By Michael McQuillan “Answer your mail.” Mentors taught this as the first rule of politics when I worked in the U.S. Senate for Missouri’s Stuart Symington in the Seventies. Continue reading

Robert Kennedy Campaigning In Harlem, August 14, 1963

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy surrounded by children as they walk down a 125th street after visiting a summer reading program at the Morningside Community Center in Harlem, New York. Continue reading

Op-Ed: President Obama And The Baltimore Riots

By Michael McQuillan The Baltimore riots are heart-rending and wrong. But it is also wrong to misconstrue First Amendment protest rights as for mere venting. Its purpose, as the Bill of Rights makes clear, is to “petition the government for a redress of grievance.” Continue reading