Lawmakers need “to ensure that all Americans have the unencumbered right to vote,” Martin Luther King III said.
Martin Luther King Jr.
King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities.
Only mass action — combined with the slow work of grassroots power-building — can break through our current crises.
King’s children have criticized GOP politicians for using their father’s name to promote such legislation in the past.
“The GOP would do well to stop banning books and start reading them,” wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The violent storming of the Capitol was in no way a “revolution” — it was the brazen reemergence of white supremacy.
Beyond his civil rights leadership, Dr. King also championed the cause of the poor and spoke against the Vietnam War.
King’s demands for economic justice are crucial in the struggle against rising American fascism.
The file is a testament to the larger racist ugliness festering in the U.S., then as now.
King warned us that the real enemy is war itself.