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Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.
Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr., hope, and the future of activism.
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.
Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”
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.
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.
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