economic justice

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/31/2022
  

  Why Do We Neglect MLK's Dream of a World Freed from Poverty?

  by Jeffrey Nall

  The modern veneration of Martin Luther King ignores the last incomplete mission of his life – the demand for economic justice and an end to poverty. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  4/4/2022
  

  Honoring Dr. King's Other, More Challenging Dream, 55 Years Later

  King's famous Riverside Church speech on April 4, 1967 marked the leader's decisive opposition to the war in Vietnam and reflected his moral clarity and willingness to take unpopular positions in the pursuit of justice by calling out racism, capitalism and militarism as three intertwined evils. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/27/2021
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer's Leadership Shows We Can't Separate Civil Rights and Economic Justice

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The author of a new biography of the Mississippi Freedom Democrat argues that Hamer's legacy shows that inequality erodes both civil rights and democracy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/26/2020
  

  Beyond ‘White Fragility’: If you Want to Let Freedom Ring, Hammer on Economic Injustice.

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The histories of Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois and Eric Foner, as well as the later speeches and writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrate that the cause of racial justice has never been separable from closing the vast economic gulf between owners and workers in America. 

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• SOURCE: commercial appeal
  2-9-18
  

  MLK's '68 struggle for economic justice still marching on

  by Michael Honey

  The bonds of memory and today’s vast disparities in wealth and well-being tell us that we must continue the struggle launched by workers and by King in the spring of 1968.