• May 28, 2012

pt weekend edition

WEEKEND EDITION

John Hope Franklin On Obama’s Nomination & Election

by Ken Layne  2:14 am March 28, 2009

John Hope Franklin — the esteemed historian, author and professor who died Wednesday at the age of 94 — lived through nearly half of U.S. History. And hell yes, he stayed angry. But he also saw an interesting development in the last months of his life. And he saw something else, in November.