Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.
SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his own words
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King’s radical revolution of values
Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.
MLK Day special: Rediscovered 1964 King speech on civil rights, segregation...
As the nation marks 90 years since the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we air a rediscovered speech he delivered on December 7, 1964.
The part about MLK white people don’t like to talk about
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”
Thousands of actions nationwide call for culture of nonviolence
Over the course of a week, tens of thousands of people connected the dots between racism, poverty, greed, war, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, and called for justice and a new culture of nonviolence.
Nonviolence or nonexistence? The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Reverend King posed the fundamental choice of our time: nonviolence or nonexistence. What is your choice?
Spending a night in the Concord jail when Martin Luther King,...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, an hour or so after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, I was in a jail cell in Concord, Mass., writing a freshman paper about King, Gandhi and Thoreau.
Would Dr. King take a knee? 6 ways his radical spirit...
Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign born again
Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.
50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a...
Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.
POPULAR
Global leaders plead for peace in Ukraine at UN
Altogether, leaders from at least 50 countries spoke up for peace in Ukraine at the 2023 UN General Assembly.
Supreme Court could trigger hundreds of billions in corporate tax cuts ‘with the stroke...
"The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues."
Elected Democrats are conformist enablers of Biden for 2024
Alarm bells among pro-Biden pundits have finally begun to break the political sound barrier. So why is it quiet on Capitol Hill on the Democratic front?
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.
Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again
Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.”