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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Beyond the Dreamer
As the country marks Martin Luther King Jr.'s 85th birthday, a veteran activist explains why it would be a mistake to remember King as only a great civil rights …
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When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns
King became an icon of pacifism, but he also believed in confrontational direct action.
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Dr. King’s Nightmare
The wealth possessed by our nation's 400 richest billionaires is equal to the collective net worth of all African-American households.
Dayvon Love: “King’s Teachings on US Imperialism Opened My Eyes to Radical Thought”
Young Baltimore activist Dayvon Love tells Paul Jay how MLK's teaching that American blacks must be anti-imperialist, changed his life.
Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Saint
The official US beatification of Martin Luther King has come at the heavy price of silence about his radical espousal of economic justice and anticolonialism.
Spirit of MLK Launches Worldwide Wave of Action
If we begin preparing now, a massive Spring offensive will lead to a Summer of transformation, a Fall of the empire and the birth of a new era.
An Open Letter to the 3.5%
The planet itself, to say nothing of the overwhelming majority of human beings, can no longer live with the killer that is global corporate capitalism in our midst.
Black Unemployment 50 Years After the March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington was billed as a march for Jobs and Freedom.
John Lewis Marches On
Bill Moyers and Rep. John Lewis revisit the 1963 March on Washington. How did it transform America?
Fast Food Workers’ Labor Day Strike Echoes Martin Luther King’s Dream
All over the country Fast Food workers are walking off their jobs, continuing a legacy for civil rights that Dr. King Began over fifty years ago.