Martin Luther King Jr. 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/3/2021
Ebenezer Baptist: MLK’s Church Makes New History In Georgia’s Senate Runoff
Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was an incubator of the fight for voting rights; its current pastor seeks election as Georgia's U.S. Senator.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
10/26/2020
If only Richard Nixon had Listened to Jackie Robinson — The GOP Might be Doing Better than Trump Today
by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Despite Jackie Robinson's intercession, Richard Nixon's moment of indecision in 1960 allowed Jack Kennedy to connect his campaign with the cause of Martin Luther King and civil rights.
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SOURCE: IndieWire
9/13/2020
‘MLK/FBI’ Review: A Damning Look at J. Edgar Hoover’s Attempts to Destroy a Civil Rights Hero
The most revealing takeaway from a new documentary on the FBI's campaign to take down Martin Luther King, Jr. isn’t that J. Edgar Hoover used every dirty machination at his disposal to take King down, but that most of the country seemed to think it was the right thing to do.
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7/26/2020
Can Martin Luther King’s Spiritual Vision Kindle a New Progressivism?
by Walter G. Moss
Advocates for a broader social democratic political agenda should consider the spiritual roots of Martin Luther King's activism, which have historically engaged a broad range of political views to reform movements.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
6/23/2020
Martin Luther King’s Giant Triplets of Injustice
by Andrew Bacevich
Without addressing the fundamental evils of economic inequality and militarism American society will continue to fail to realize the promise of racial equality, as Martin Luther King warned in his 1967 speech at Riverside Church.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/17/2020
The GOP Missed Its Chance To Embrace Martin Luther King Jr.
by Tim Galsworthy
Invoking a sanitized and selective memory of Dr. King enables politicians and voters to trumpet order and exhibit faux outrage at disorder, rather than face up to endemic racial inequalities.
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SOURCE: American Songwriter
6/10/2020
On the Saddest Song Ever Written, “Why (The King of Love is Dead)”
Performed with love and sorrow by Nina Simone only days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it sadly resonates today as much as ever.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/8/2020
Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy
by Jeanne Theoharis
King has much to say about our contemporary moment, about the persistence of police abuse and the power of disruption, which may account, at least partly, for why this aspect of his politics is considerably less recognized.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/1/2020
What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Say About The Current Civil Unrest?
by Peniel Joseph
Many commentators who now invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to condemn angry protesters fail to grasp that King insisted peace and order could not be achieved without addressing deep racial and economic inequality in American society.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/24/2020
Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment
by Gene Sperling
Today, we are forced to confront the dissonance between our nation’s labeling of workers as “essential” and “heroes” and their limited wages, benefits and ability to organize.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/14/2020
What Street Names Say About Us
A geographer who studies the civil rights movement told Deirdre Mask, “We have attached the name of one of the most famous civil rights leaders of our time to the streets that speak to the very need to continue the civil rights movement.”
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SOURCE: Time
1/17/20
Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated
by Olivia B. Waxman
The civil-rights leader’s personal political party affiliation remains a mystery.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/20/20
‘To India I come as a pilgrim’: Martin Luther King Jr.’s remarkable trip to honor his hero
by Gillian Brockell
King first learned about Gandhi as a seminary student in 1949, just a year after Gandhi had been assassinated. He soon wrote about Gandhi in his schoolwork as a person who “greatly reveal[s] the working of the Spirit of God.”
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10/27/19
“The Uplift of All” Through Nonviolent Direct Action
by Michael Honey
Nonviolence struggle links you backward and forward to generations of people who have changed the world and provides a personal link to others that can sustain a life of activism.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
9/27/19
Listen to the Stories of Alabama’s Civil Rights Sites
A new interactive project seeks to preserve oral testimonies connected to 20 historic locations.
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SOURCE: Intelligencer
6/30/2019
Two MLK Scholars Discuss Explosive, Disputed FBI Files on the Civil-Rights Icon
Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.
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SOURCE: Atlantic Journal-Constitution
6/7/19
Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task
by David Garrow
David Garrow defends his recent controversial article about Martin Luther King, Jr.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
5/30/19
What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?
by Rod Radosh
Some thought Garrow should keep his discoveries under wraps, but it is the job of the historian to tell the truth.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6/8/19
A historian's claims about Martin Luther King are shocking – and irresponsible
by Donna Murch
A recent essay claims the civil rights leader was present during a rape, but the evidence is shaky and there’s reason to be skeptical.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
6/3/2019
About the FBI’s Spying
by William McGurn
What’s the difference between surveillance of Carter Page and Martin Luther King?
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