Hillary Clinton won endorsements from Congressional Black Caucus members while civil rights legend Harry Belafonte came out for Bernie Sanders. But another question is who would Martin Luther King Jr. have supported since he like Sanders advocated for “democratic socialism,”…
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MLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
The Battle over Dr. King’s Message
MLK and the Curse of ‘Moderation’
Reasons for Despair and Hope
The Battle over Dr. King’s Message
MLK and the Curse of ‘Moderation’
A Disappointing ‘Selma’ Film
Standing Up for Lessons of Dissent
There is a general belief that Americans don’t care much about history, preferring to bask in self-reverential “exceptionalism” with U.S. behavior beyond criticism. But students outside Denver are taking to the streets to protest right-wing efforts to strip dissent from the history curriculum, writes…