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Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK’s Final Days: The Rev. James Lawson Remembers King’s Assassination and Support for Memphis Strike
Rev. James Lawson discusses his experience with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Starvation Wages Are a “Crime”: Lessons From MLK and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike, 50 Years Later
H.B. Crockett and William ‘'Bill'’ Lucy discuss more.
MLK’s Radical Final Years: Civil Rights Leader Was Isolated After Taking On Capitalism and Vietnam War
Looking back at the last three years of King's life.
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Were You Born in a S—hole Country?
Giving Up Patriotism and Integration Myths for MLK Day
Dr. King fought for Black freedom, not racial integration.
Anti-Poverty Activist Al McSurely: “We Have Strong Reasons for Hope”
Dr. King's “Poor People's Campaign” is back on.
What a Revived Poor People’s Campaign Needs to Do in the Trump Era
For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class whites.
MLK Day 2017: Mobilizing Against Racism, Capitalism and Militarism in a Neo-Fascist Era
The moment we are in demands that we pay close attention to history. Our lives depend on it.
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Women’s Work: A Personal Reflection on MLK Day
One Black woman who spent her girlhood in Trump country builds a new bridge to sisterhood.
On Martin Luther King Day: Revolutionary Love in an Era of Trump
A fresh generation in the US has become activated to resist the administration of Donald Trump.