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Fighting to Desegregate the American Calendar
As a versatile but complex hero, King led a life open to interpretation by politicians and activists of all types who fiercely debated his legacy.
by
Daniel T. Fleming
,
Brock Schnoke
via
UNC Press Blog
on
January 15, 2024
A Case of the Mondays
The beginning of the fight for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
by
Daniel T. Fleming
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 29, 2022
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King
The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.
by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
via
The Daily Princetonian
on
January 17, 2022
Colleges’ Reluctant Embrace of MLK Day
The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
,
Francesca Polletta
,
Thomas J. Shields
via
JSTOR Daily
on
January 20, 2019
Reagan Used MLK Day to Undermine Racial Justice
Reagan never really believed that Martin Luther King, Jr., deserved a holiday.
by
Justin Gomer
,
Christopher F. Petrella
via
Boston Review
on
January 15, 2017
The Struggle for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Memory
How political misappropriations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy fuel right-wing movements.
by
Hajar Yazdiha
via
Contexts Magazine
on
January 15, 2024
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Coca Cola Strategy: Selling King’s Dream to the World
Martin Luther King’s words are available publicly — for a price.
by
Daniel T. Fleming
via
Made By History
on
January 16, 2023
The International MLK
“The social revolution which is taking place in this country is not an isolated, detached phenomenon. It is part of a worldwide revolution that is taking place.”
by
Robert Greene II
via
Black Perspectives
on
January 17, 2022
The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics have diluted King's dream.
by
Andre E. Key
via
Religion Dispatches
on
January 13, 2022
What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About the Filibuster: ‘A Minority of Misguided Senators’
The context in which King shared his views on the filibuster is the same one in which the Senate now finds itself: amid battles over voting rights legislation.
by
Gillian Brockell
via
Retropolis
on
January 4, 2022
MLK Warned Us of the Well-Intentioned Liberal
Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.
by
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
,
William J. Barber II
via
The Nation
on
January 18, 2019
Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
by
Vann R. Newkirk II
via
The Atlantic
on
January 15, 2018
The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
,
Jeremy Scahill
via
The Intercept
on
October 8, 2017
Patriotic Education and the End of History
Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.
by
Jeff Sharlet
via
Scenes from a Slow Civil War
on
January 30, 2025
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The Problem With Comparing Today's Activists to MLK
Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.
by
Hajar Yazdiha
via
Made By History
on
January 15, 2024
Martin Luther King, Critical Race Theorist
Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.
by
Sam Hoadley-Brill
via
The Nation
on
January 15, 2024
Restoring the Real, Radical Martin Luther King Jr. in “King: A Life”
A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.
by
Jonathan Eig
,
Steve Nathans-Kelly
via
Chicago Review of Books
on
May 23, 2023
King Was A Critical Race Theorist Before There Was a Name For It
When states ban antiracism history from schools, they're disavowing what King stood for.
by
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
via
Los Angeles Times
on
January 17, 2022
It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day
Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
by
Mark Engler
via
The Nation
on
January 17, 2020
Martin Luther King and the 'Polite’ Racism of White Liberals
Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
via
Washington Post
on
January 17, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation
He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.
by
Asad Haider
via
n+1
on
January 18, 2019
MLK: What We Lost
50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 18, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later
Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.
by
Michael K. Honey
via
The Nation
on
April 3, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Much More Radical Message than a Dream of Racial Brotherhood
King Jr., remembered today for his non-violent resistance, was a radical reformer who called for fundamental redistribution of economic power and resources.
by
Paul Harvey
via
The Conversation
on
March 30, 2018
Restoring King
There is no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted than Martin Luther King Jr.
by
Thomas J. Sugrue
via
Jacobin
on
January 16, 2018
Seeing Martin Luther King as a Human Being
King should be appreciated in his full complexity.
by
Nathan J. Robinson
via
Current Affairs
on
January 15, 2018
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