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Racism, Dr. King, and Food Stamps

Joel Berg | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Hunger, Martin Luther King, Food Stamps, SNAP Program, Poor People's Campaign, Jamie Whitten, Rick Santorum, Social Programs, Martin Luther King Day, Strom Thurmond, Newt Gingrich, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, New York News
Joel Berg

Dr. Martin Luther King, responding to near-starvation conditions found in parts of the U.S., viewed access to food as a civil rights issue. King made the hunger issue a central component of his Poor People's Campaign.

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Occupy: Resurrecting Rev. King's Final Dream

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Poor People?S Campaign, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, American Dream, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Frank Ogawa Plaza, Resurrection City, Reflecting Pool, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Occupy, Great Recession, Rev. Martin Luther King, Economic Bill of Rights, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Great Depression, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

What Rev. King preached and what many Occupiers seem to believe is that paramount in a republic is job creation, not wealth creation. The duty of government is not to ensure that the rich get richer but to establish equal opportunity.

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Interview: Playwright Katori Hall Reaches for King's Mountaintop

Lonna Saunders | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Samuel L. Jackson, President Obama, Juilliard School, Lydia Diamond, Spike Lee, Signature Theatre Company, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Rep. Joe Wilson, Mountaintop, Halle Berry, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Denzel Washington, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Hurt Village, Lorraine Motel, Christopher Durang, Katori Hall, Porgy and Bess, Memphis, Sir Laurence Olivier, Columbia University, Harvard University, Stick Fly, Mason Temple, Broadway, Deirdre Murray, Jacobs Theater, NY Around Town, Entertainment News
Lonna Saunders

Playwright Katori Hall's new play Mountaintop pays tribute to Dr. King's last public appearance at Mason Temple in Memphis where he delivered his historic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.

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