Martin Luther King Jr.

The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice.

Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.

Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.

As a versatile but complex hero, King led a life open to interpretation by politicians and activists of all types who fiercely debated his legacy.

How political misappropriations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy fuel right-wing movements.

The history of Black churches’ struggles offers both warnings and hope for the U.S. today.

A journalistic view of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, work, and representation in American society.

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was the fateful moment that the wave of hope finally broke for Black America.

A new biography of King emerges at a "critical juncture" for his legacy.

We revere the man and revile the strategy, but King knew what he was doing.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Revisiting MLK Jr.’s sermon against the Vietnam War.

On Martin Luther King's use of radical ideas to create an understanding of the history of America.

When states ban antiracism history from schools, they're disavowing what King stood for.

The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.

“The social revolution which is taking place in this country is not an isolated, detached phenomenon. It is part of a worldwide revolution that is taking place.”

Politics have diluted King's dream.

The context in which King shared his views on the filibuster is the same one in which the Senate now finds itself: amid battles over voting rights legislation.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.