Forum: MLK Now
Opening
Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
Brandon M. Terry
Essays
Ed Pavli?
Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, a devastated James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
Aziz Rana
Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”
Samuel Moyn
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
Christian G. Appy
The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.
Thad Williamson
The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.
