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On MLK Day: How a Racist Criminal Justice System Rolled Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Era

Amy Goodman, Michelle Alexander, Randall Robinson, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. January 15, 2012.

For Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Democracy Now! hosts a discussion of mass incarceration among African-Americans and how it has created a new Jim Crow era.

MLK's Legacy -- Let's Launch a People's Campaign for the Unemployed

Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. January 14, 2011.

With a conservative House trying to box Obama into stymying job creation, we need a dramatic confrontation on behalf of the 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed.

Dr. Martin Luther King's Birthday: Is the Drug War the Next Big Civil Rights Issue?

Anthony Papa, Yolande Cadore, AlterNet. January 8, 2011.

How do we begin to address the connections between astronomical rates of incarceration, disintegration of black families, and the war on drugs?

Glenn Beck to Hold Tea Party Rally on Anniversary of MLK Speech: How Conservatives Are Trying to Hijack Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream

Devona Walker, AlterNet. June 27, 2010.

Glenn Beck is exploiting MLK's 'I have a Dream' speech. This isn't the first time conservatives have abused King's memory to push an ideology opposed to everything he stood for.

Watch: Hip Hop Artist Gives Boost to Green Jobs, Builds on MLK Legacy

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, AlterNet. January 18, 2010.

Dr. King did not know green-collar jobs or the clean-energy economy. But the principles of equality, justice and opportunity remain the same.

Dr. King's Work Is Yet Undone

Roger Kim, Henry Clark, Bill Gallegos, AlterNet. January 18, 2010.

The nation's communities of color are still disproportionately affected by industrial pollution.

If MLK Were Around, He Wouldn't Care About Racial Brushfires in the Media -- He'd Be Talking About Poverty

Rich Benjamin, AlterNet. January 15, 2010.

It’s the personal and dramatic aspects of race that obsess us, not the deeply rooted and currently active, political inequalities.

Statement of President-elect Barack Obama on Martin Luther King Day

twolf1, Firedoglake. January 19, 2009.

"We resolve that as we walk, we must walk together."

Obama and MLK: Extra Fly

Jill Tubman, Jack & Jill Politics. August 29, 2008.

Barack Obama restores the American Dream in a way that John McCain, son of privilege, never could.

Columngate: The Media's Latest Alarmist Non-Story

Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast. August 28, 2008.

Is this really the best they can come up with?

Legacy of MLK: Unions Can Help Us Get to the Promised Land

Gerry Hudson, AlterNet. April 4, 2008.

True equality is still the goal.

April 4, 1968: The Moment That Made Me a Radical

Michael C. Dawson, The Root. April 4, 2008.

Forty years ago, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. radicalized a generation of African Americans.

Keeping MLK's Green Legacy Alive

Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, AlterNet. April 3, 2008.

MLK, Jr. died fighting to make green-collar jobs good jobs. Now, others at Green For All have taken on his work.

Media's Political Coverage Like Kindergartners Playing Telephone

Megan Garber, Columbia Journalism Review. January 17, 2008.

How the press fanned Dem candidates' so-called "racial tension."

Obama Needs a History Lesson about Hillary and King

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. January 14, 2008.

The Obama campaign has misunderstood a comment by Senator Clinton about MLK's role in the civil rights movement.

The Pragmatism of Prolonged War

Norman Solomon, AlterNet. March 13, 2007.

In an echo of Vietnam 40 years ago, the Iraq war continues while the antiwar movement loses its way among the ineffective posturing of Democratic leadership.

MLK, Atheism and The Left

Evan Derkacz, January 16, 2007.

A quick thought...

Silence is Betrayal: John Edwards on Iraq, MLK Day [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, January 15, 2007.

Congress must step up and stop the president from putting more troops in harm's way.

Be Your Own King

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. January 15, 2007.

Behind all the Kumbaya-ism in this federal holiday is a prophetic preacher who talked not just about race, but about war and poverty.

Be Your Own King

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. January 15, 2007.

Behind all the Kumbaya-ism in this federal holiday is a prophetic preacher who talked not just about race, but about war and poverty.

MLK Jr. Comic Book

Evan Derkacz, January 14, 2007.

"The Montgomery Story," a 1956 comic book, details some key events and spiritual underpinnings of the Civil Rights Era.

MLK Jr. Day Essentials [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, January 14, 2007.

The "Mountaintop," "Beyond Vietnam," and "I Have a Dream" speeches... and Colbert.

When Public Employees Were Under Attack, MLK Stood With the Workers

John Nichols, December 31, 1969.