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Protesters holding banners and signs at a rally (Getty Images/Vanessa Nunes)

Open letter to Democrats: What's next?

Tim Roemer
Texas Governor John Connally adjusts his tie (foreground) as US President John F Kennedy (left) & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (in pink) settled in rear seats, prepared for motorcade into city from airport, Nov. 22. After a few speaking stops, the President was assassinated in the same car. (Bettmann / Contributor/Getty)

Trump declassifies JFK, MLK files

Griffin Eckstein
Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A tale of two Americas

Audra Wilson, Esq., Lucy Di Rosa, PhD
Genius: MLK/X (Nat Geo)

Falling for the MLK & Malcolm X fantasy

Melanie McFarland
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Climate protesters interrupt former US president and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump as he speaks at a "commit to caucus rally" in Indianola, Iowa, on January 14, 2024. (CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

How the resistance can stay persistent

Chauncey DeVega
Dr. Martin Luther King being shoved back by Mississippi patrolmen during the 220 mile 'March Against Fear' from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi, June 8, 1966. (Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Missing the point of the MLK holiday

Chauncey DeVega
Jonathan Majors attends the UK Gala Screening of Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, at BFI IMAX Waterloo on February 16, 2023 in London, England. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney)

Jonathan Majors' Coretta Scott King miss

Nardos Haile
Schoolchildren and students demonstrated in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, on May, 02, 1963, during a civil disobedience campaign to protest against racial segregation. (AFP via Getty Images)

America's racial history: Truth matters

Caleb Elfenbein
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A small vigil set up across the street from a Tops grocery store on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, where a heavily armed 18-year-old White man entered the store in a predominantly Black neighborhood and shot 13 people, killing ten, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Hope and loss on Memorial Day

Chauncey DeVega
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

MLK.'s lessons in resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Members of the 1199SEIU health care workers union from New York arrived in Washington aboard 70 buses on Saturday, June 18. (Bob Hennelly)

D.C. march calls out "politics of greed"

Bob Hennelly
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967 at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

To save democracy, do we need utopia?

Paul Rosenberg
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Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The right's fake MLK: Hollower than ever

Chauncey DeVega
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit circa 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. (Dozier Mobley/Getty Images)

Tennessee moms group: Ban MLK book

Igor Derysh
Glenn Beck and Barack Obama (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Glenn Beck is back to call Obama racist

Zachary Petrizzo
US soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division practice medical evacuation skills during a training session at the Forward Operating Base Ghazni on May 24, 2013. US-led coalition forces are winding down their operations before a scheduled withdrawal of the bulk of their 100,000 troops by the end of 2014, and racing to prepare Afghan forces to take over responsibility for security. (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images)

An American spiritual death spiral?

Liz Theoharis - TomDispatch.com
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Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Central Press/Getty Images)

Honor MLK through economic justice

David Masciotra
Service at Lakewood Church in Houston, where Pastor Joel Osteen preaches to some 25,000 people each week. (Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images)

Evangelicals are false Christians

Nathaniel Manderson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

Can America's soul be saved?

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

For MLK, no healing without justice

Chauncey DeVega
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Indiana anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp while protesting against the execution of Lisa Montgomery and two others, which are scheduled at Terre Haute Federal Prison this week. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Calls to abolish health penalty continue

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
MLK/FBI (IFC Films)

"MLK/FBI" investigates white men's fears

Gary M. Kramer
Cornel West | BLM Protest (Getty Images/Salon)

Cornel West: We need radical democracy

Chauncey DeVega
US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening Coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

A revolution by pandemic

Bob Hennelly
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