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Brandon M. Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University. He is coeditor, with Tommie Shelby, of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Judith Butler talks with Brandon M. Terry about MLK, the grievability of black lives, and how to defend nonviolence today.
In these video interviews, Brandon M. Terry explains how MLK's canonization has come at the expense of taking him seriously as a political thinker.
Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
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