In the midst of weekly protests in Washington Square Park, NYU invites us to take a look back to a time even more tumultuous than our own — the 1960s. NYU's 12th annual Martin Luther King Week celebration — titled "Essence of a True Revolution" — stretches from today until Thursday.

Wil Haygood and Pamela Newkirk discussed journalism, writing and Haygood's "The Butler: A Witness to History" at a Bookend event in Brooklyn.