Back in the mid-1950s when a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Washington I made friends with a fellow graduate student named Willi Unsoeld. We were not close friends but we did engage in occasional conversations about issues and ideas of both philosophical and other nature. Later on Willi became a world wide…

When Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 I was living and teaching there. I taught at what is now Rhodes College and also at Lemoyne-Owen College. The latter was a traditional Black College. Dr. King had come to Memphis to support the local Sanitation Workers strike. They were trying to get a union…