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17 January 2024
Dr.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
10 January 2024
Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation.
Richard S. Dunn
03 May 2023
The late Harry Belafonte was a great artist and also a committed revolutionary.
Black Alliance For Peace
19 January 2022
Black Alliance for Peace reminds us that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peter Kelley
08 July 2021
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.
Sylvie Laurent, interviewed by Arvind Dilawar
07 April 2021
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
Stephen Joseph Scott
27 January 2021
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
Linn Washington Jr.
04 February 2020
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.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
29 January 2020
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
Matthew Miles Goodrich
29 January 2020
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