Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968)

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.

Fast-food workers in the Fight for $15 movement are making the same demands sanitation workers made five decades ago.

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.

Fifty years later, the legacies of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy still loom large.

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

A conversation with the creator of a virtual reality experience that takes you inside the protests leading up to MLK Jr.’s death.

Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.

According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.

Fifty years after his death, King is a national treasure in the US. But what happened to his revolutionary legacy?

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.

She saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

Nelson “Little D” Ross talks soul and significance with music historian Robert Gordon.