This by @jeffcot & @normansolomon on the media coverage of #MLKDay remains so relevant 23 years later: "The remarkable thing about this annual review of King’s life is that ... his last years — are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole."https://fair.org/media-beat-column/the-martin-luther-king-you-dont-see-on-tv/ …
Fantastic essay by @brandonmterry on the legacy of #MLK: "King calls on us to think and argue publicly about the crises of our present, and collectively determine the broadest range of nonviolent coercive powers at our disposal."
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#MLK50Forwardhttp://bostonreview.net/race/brandon-m-terry-mlk-now#.Wlk743nutB0.twitter …
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“For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. ... We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.””
#MLKJr https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/15/martin-luther-king-jr-s-scathing-critique-of-white-moderates-from-the-birmingham-jail/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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#MLK: “In a sense you could say we are engaged in the class struggle.” ... the movement to uproot poverty and inequality throughout the country would “be a long and difficult struggle, for our program calls for a redistribution of economic power.”https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/15/remembering-martin-luther-kings-radical-class-politics/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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