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The late Harry Belafonte was a great artist and also a committed revolutionary.
Black Alliance for Peace reminds us that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you.
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
Each year in January as King is honored in the eyes of the public, there is little mention of the demands of the man and his mission: his fight for
New Jersey was the site of a young Dr King’s very first formal protest and lawsuit, but the state refuses to recognize the events.
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
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