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.
- March 29, 2018
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.”
- February 7, 2018
Samuel Moyn
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
- February 27, 2018
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.
- January 26, 2018
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.
- February 22, 2018
