Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Fifty Years After His Death

by Jelani Cobb

This anniversary of his assassination falls amid the largest anti-gun-violence mobilization that we have seen since he departed.

The Whitewashing — and Resurrection — of Dr. King’s Legacy

by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

In so many ways, King’s life has been reduced to the lead character in a fable the nation tells itself about “the movement,” which begins with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and culminates with the 1963 March on Washington or in Selma in 1965.