Martin Luther King Jr.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

King understood the perils of submerged racism.

To understand the slogan's meaning, consider the words of Martin Luther King, who saw the riots of the 1960s as not revolutionary enough.

Martin Luther King Jr. proposed a fix for America’s poisoned soul: ending the Vietnam War.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

Revealing these materials could be considered “Hoover’s revenge.”

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.

Most people think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. What many don’t know is that he also championed labor unionism.

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.

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

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

On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s time to remember who he really was.

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

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.

Elder Michaux, a popular black evangelist, aided the bureau's campaign to destroy King's reputation.

King Jr., remembered today for his non-violent resistance, was a radical reformer who called for fundamental redistribution of economic power and resources.

Coretta Scott King described “a major, high-level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband.” The King children remain certain of that, too.

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

There is no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted than Martin Luther King Jr.