Martin Luther King Assassination

No Sense in Staying, Hillary

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.24.2008 | Home


We've already lost too many great leaders who were trying to change the status quo. After Hillary's recent crass comments, her career had better be over.

Jamal, MLK, and Me

Byron Williams | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics


Byron Williams

How could I possibly celebrate the life of a man who was assassinated while advocating for those on the margins and not affirm the humanity of this young man on the street?

A Fatal Blow to Idealism

Deepak Chopra | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics


Deepak Chopra

An article in the Washington Post for the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death: "A Fatal Blow To Idealism."

On Obama Not Going to Memphis

Cornel West | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Cornel West

I have a very deep disagreement with my dear brother, Barack Obama -- in this case, commitment to truth is in tension with the quest for power.

Honoring King is Not Enough

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Marian Wright Edelman

Too many of us would rather celebrate than follow Dr. King. We would rather build a monument or name a street or school after him than build the new nation and world he called for.

The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charlie Rose | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Charlie Rose

2008-04-04-mlkjrrosepullnew.jpgTo commemorate Dr. King's legacy and to take a deeper look at race in America I spoke with Tom Brokaw, John Hope Franklin, James Clyburn and Dr. Beverly Tatum.

Forty Years Gone: MLK's Dream Today Would Be Colored 'Green'

Van Jones | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Van Jones

Dr. King worked for equal protection and equal opportunity. We, too, must adopt that agenda, but ours is an age of both social crisis and ecological peril.

40 Years after MLK's Death: DOJ's War on Black Voters

Art Levine | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Art Levine

What was once primarily a series of tactics stretching back from the evil days of the poll tax in the 1960s to "caging" and photo ID today, has become official Justice Department policy.

Remembering Dr. King's Legacy on Poverty

Rep. Barbara Lee | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Rep. Barbara Lee

Addressing poverty should be one of our first priorities, not the last. And one of the first steps we should take is to end our generation's version of the Vietnam War, our occupation of Iraq.

Just Forty Years Ago

Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Frank Mankiewicz

I was Robert Kennedy's press secretary, and I had received maybe 10 calls from various media, reporting accusations from angry Catholic phone callers complaining the senator had "taken communion" in a Protestant church.

The New Assassins Don't Use Guns

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


RJ Eskow

A new form of political murder has taken its place -- character assassination. Over the last two decades, the Right has learned how to destroy its enemies without leaving a body.

Unions Can Help Us Get Over the Mountaintop Towards the Promised Land

Gerry Hudson | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Gerry Hudson

As Martin Luther King knew so well, unions have long built bridges to those islands of poverty that stain our society and threaten the American Dream.

April 4, 1968

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Bobby Kennedy's brief remarks the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination would be later described as a small masterpiece of American public rhetoric made all the more poignant by his own assassination just eight weeks later.

40 Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced

Jeff Cohen | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Jeff Cohen

In 1967 and '68, mainstream media saw Rev. Martin Luther King a bit like they now see Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Was James Earl Ray Martin Luther King's Killer? Doubts Remain

Huffington Post | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


The BBC reports: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 40 years ago on 4 April 1968. A year later, James Ear...

King: "I Can't Follow the Old Eye-For-an-Eye Philosophy"

Paul Helmke | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Paul Helmke

If Dr. King is looking down on us today, I can imagine him seeing 12,352 gun murders a year in the U.S. -- nearly 34 every day -- and telling us that "the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy leaves everyone blind."

Barriers Broken, Barriers Remain

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


Michael Fauntroy

Acknowledgment of the current state of play is necessary if we are to ever get beyond the surface, gut-level reactions to race that pollute our discussions of racism and its impact.

Q&A With The Late Coretta Scott King

Janet Kinosian | Posted 04.04.2008 | Living


Janet Kinosian

The family of Martin Luther King has survived a great deal since the following 2004 interview took place in Atlanta. Coretta King had moved from her l...

Green For All (For Martin Luther King): The New Color Of The New Civil Rights Movement

Katie Halper | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics


Katie Halper

Although often presented as "single issues" poverty, racism, and environmental degradation are interlinked, as low-income people suffer disproportionately from cancer, asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Obama Campaign Rakes In the Dough After Iowa

The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...

The Weekly Standard's Latest Dewey Moment

Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...

Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears

Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...

Woman Who Made Clinton Cry Voted For Obama

Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...

Did Edwards Slip Help Clinton In New Hampshire?

Political Wire | Stuart Rothenberg | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


While some will suggest that Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire victory can be traced to her emotional comments shortly before the primary, and othe...

Could Obama Win New York's Democratic Primary?

New York Sun | PETER KIEFER | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics


It seemed next to impossible just a few days ago: the idea of Senator Obama competing against -- much less beating -- Senator Clinton on her home turf...


 

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