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by Tara Bynum onFebruary 15, 2010
The African-American story is not just activism and resistance.
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January 15, 2010
In his last years, Martin Luther King Jr. broadened his vision to address the plight of all the poor—black, white and Hispanic.
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by Jack White onJanuary 6, 2009
King deserved a better ending than one at the hand of a two-bit punk, but James Earl Ray is really the little man who killed the big dreamer.
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by Lawrence Bobo onJanuary 6, 2009
Dr. King would weep at the mass incarceration of black men.
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by Brian Gilmore onJanuary 6, 2009
Forty years ago, fixing it was King's Chicago hope. Why are we still hoping?
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by Melissa Harris-Perry onJanuary 6, 2009
Gender is as critical as race in marking the trauma of King's death.
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by Alice Bonner onJanuary 6, 2009
Black people destroyed their city in order to claim it.
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by Sam Fulwood III onJanuary 6, 2009
When is the black middle class going to pay its debt to King?
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by Martin Johnson onJanuary 6, 2009
A conversation with guitarist-activist Vernon Reid on how MLK's death affected black music.
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by Marjorie Valbrun onJanuary 6, 2009
How developing nations translated King's message.
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