Martin Luther King during his "Mountaintop" speech, April 3, 1968
Martin Luther King
I know this will surprise the vast majority of Americans, but Martin Luther King was a person with shifting politics who moved far to the left in his later years..
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial As this Financial Times piece points out, Martin Luther King taught a college course in 1961 and his syllabus would outrage Republicans today: King.
A thought provoking discussion here about what the legacy of Martin Luther King, and in particular his late life move toward democratic socialism and anti-imperialism, should mean to a modern left that is getting its feet underneath it but which also suffers from some very...
For tonight's film, let's watch Martin Luther King's 1967 speech at Stanford. Titled "The Other America," here he laid out his late-life quest to fight poverty in a cross-racial campaign.
The march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went forward March 28, 1968. Most of the 5,000-plus who participated were described as working-class, church-going people.
Today is our annual reminder that the conservative cooptation of Martin Luther King continues in its grotesque march forward away from the truth into a fascist candyland of "colorblindness" to serve the purposes of white supremacy. How did this begin? I am always skeptical of...
Above: A man who believed precisely what contemporary white conservatives happen to think on a given day Only conservative whites truly understand noted conservative Martin Luther King, Jr. The greatest.
The children of Martin Luther King care about one thing: money. That's why the new African-American history museum at the Smithsonian has no important artifacts from King. When the museum.
This is the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King is a man who gave one speech in his life. In that speech he talked about dreams in such a vague way that he actually meant to give support to whatever conservative talking...
On May 21, 1968, the Poor People's Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. Attempting to go on after the assassination of Martin Luther King.
On a day where we are celebrating MLK Day with a bunch of old white men complaining about the behavior of a young, brash black man in a football game.