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  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    1/17/2022

    Americans Misunderstand the Radical Vision of even the Young MLK

    by Victoria W. Wolcott

    Long before the escalation of the war in Vietnam, urban unrest and national battles for fair housing that animated King's late work, he expressed a vision of justice that demanded systemic transformation of American society. His wife Coretta was a profound influence. 

  • SOURCE: Dissent
    5/19/2021

    A Vision of Racial and Economic Justice: A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin

    by Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill

    "More than a year into a national reckoning over racism, two heroes in the struggle for racial justice have received little national attention. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin were mentor and student, friends and colleagues—eventually, their relationship was like father and son."

  • SOURCE: Lapham's Quarterly
    4/6/2020

    A Revolution of Values

    by Peniel E. Joseph

    Racial apartheid’s grip on American democracy, argued King, corrupted the nation in war and peace.

  • SOURCE: The Nation
    3/15/2020

    Prayer Will Not Stop the Coronavirus

    by The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    America is not in trouble because people are not praying; we face an exacerbated public health crisis because this administration has spent more time preying on the most vulnerable than lifting all people.

  • SOURCE: Black Perspectives
    1/20/20

    Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

    by Justin Rose

    “I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others…I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.”