We must never give in to despair or give up. We must keep moving. 

Growing up, the Lorraine Motel was just down the street. Now it means something.

How developing nations translated King's message.

A conversation with guitarist-activist Vernon Reid on how MLK's death affected black music.

Gender is as critical as race in marking the trauma of King's death.

When is the black middle class going to pay its debt to King?

Black people had to destroy the city in order to claim it.

Michael Eric Dyson ends his book, April 4, 1968 (Basic Civitas Books, 2008)  with an imaginary Q&A with MLK at age 80 in which King 'speaks' out on Barack, Oprah, hip-hop, homosexuality and his depression. The following is an excerpt, reprinted with permission:

AFTERWARD

If Dr. King had lived, what might he say about what he sees today? This is but a small piece of what I think he might have thought about a few personal and social issues, offered in the same spirit that he penned his letter to the American church as the Apostle Paul. The occasion for the interview is a celebration of Dr. King's 80th birthday, which, of course, had he lived, would be nowhere near a national holiday.

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.

The moment that made me a radical.

Dr. King would weep at the mass incarceration of black men.

Forty years ago, fixing it was King's Chicago hope. Why are we still hoping?