Michael C. Dawson, The Root. April 4, 2008. Forty years ago, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. radicalized a generation of African Americans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. January 14, 2007. "The Montgomery Story," a 1956 comic book, details some key events and spiritual underpinnings of the Civil Rights Era.