Joe blundo biography
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Presentation by Joe Blundo on February 6
“The Ohio Church Where Martin and Malcolm Made History”
Long-time journalist Joe Blundo on February 6 will take our Torch Club audience back to the mid-1960s when a church in Cleveland was a national stage for public proclamations on the civil rights movement. The title of Joe’s Torch paper is “The Ohio Church Where Martin and Malcolm Made History.”
“At the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, two iconic leaders of that era — Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X — both came to Cleveland to rally support, and both chose the pulpit at Cory Methodist Church to do it,” Joe recounts. “It was a measure of both Cleveland’s importance as a Northern center of the movement and Cory’s reputation as an anchor of the Black community.”
Built in the 1920s as a synagogue and Jewish community center, Cory was sold to a Methodist congregation in the 1940s. It quickly became a spiritual, social, recreational and political center for African-Americans on Cleveland’s East Side.
King came there to speak to thousands in 1963, just weeks after being jailed in Birmingham, Ala., during the demonstrations that prompted authorities to unleash police dogs and fire hoses on protestors. Malcolm X followed in 1964
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So to Converse | Joe Blundo: American still draws on stimulus of 'WKRP'
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Joe Blundo: Alternatives make facts stranger than fiction
I have revised my biography in light of the “alternative facts” era in which we now live.
The new era arrived on Sunday when Donald Trump's counselor, responding to complaints about the administration’s lies, said it is merely offering “alternative facts.”
In that moment, I felt the universe shift.
No longer would one dreary set of facts govern a situation or define a person. Now there would be endless, alternative facts from which to choose. The possibilities thrilled me.
The unimaginative argue that a world with one version of reality is tidier in some ways. And I admit that the debates about math (seven versions of the multiplication tables have sprung up in the past 48 hours alone) do grow a bit tiresome.
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But that's a petty concern.
The opportunities for —well, let’s call it resume reinvention — in an alternative-fact world far outweigh the inconveniences.
So that explains why I am now the winner of the 2013 Heisman Trophy, the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2015 Animal Hero Award (I was a golden retriever that year; anything is possible in the alternative-fact universe.)
How could a man approaching retirement age accomplish so much? Well