>"Unapologetic and unembarrassed by its string of recent failures, the war party is once again climbing back into the saddle."

>"Martin Luther King Jr was a walking, talking example of everything this country despises about the quest for Black liberation"

>"Martin Luther King’s family and civil rights advocates urged lawmakers to ‘protect our voting rights or be an enabler of voter suppression’"

Members of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family demanded Monday that the Senate scrap the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation as they led a D.C. march on the holiday honoring the civil rights icon.

>"King’s nightmare of racism is being presented as his dream."

>"Nearly 60 years after the I Have a Dream speech, crowds came to the capital again to protest attacks on minority rights"

"In all the celebrations of Martin Luther King’s life, we tend to forget something very important about our country’s greatest civil rights leader: when he was alive, institutions of the US state, especially the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, _...Read More_

>"The report excuses America’s founders for owning slaves and defends the racist Three-Fifths Compromise as necessary to _...Read More_

"In director Sam Pollard’s new documentary MLK/FBI, close friends and family of the murdered civil rights leader say he dismissed concerns that government authorities, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, were tracking his every move. _...Read More_

>"The bureau’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. reflects a paranoia about Black activism that’s foundational to American politics."

The date was April 16th of 1963, and Martin Luther King, Jr. sent out his now-famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”