Martin Luther King Jr.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: Townhall
  7-30-14
  

  History Professor: Convicted Cop Killer Mumia Should Be Celebrated Like Martin Luther King Jr. in Schools

  "Essentially by the end of his life, Martin Luther King like Mumia Abu Jamal, was a radical."

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-25-13
  

  Dana Milbank: Roberts’s Cynical Treatment of MLK in Voting Ruling

  Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post.The Roberts court chose a most cynical way to celebrate this summer’s 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s penultimate day in session before the Aug. 28 semi-centenary of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the court’s conservative majority announced a 5 to 4 ruling that guts one of King’s greatest triumphs, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (The Roberts court weakened another of King’s triumphs, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a pair of 5-to-4 rulings on Monday.)