National Brotherhood Week

Tom Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 60s. National Brotherhood Week was a week-long celebration of religious, racial and cultural diversity held generally during the third week of February from the 1940s through the 1980s. Malcolm X was assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week in 1965 inspiring the Tom Lehrer song "National Brotherhood Week," satirizing race and other community relations in the United States.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• hypocrisy
• bias
• bigotry
• racism
• diversity
• sexism
• religious oppression
• heterosexism
• ableism
• ageism
• violence
• bullying
• discrimination