Martin Luther King Jr

Ajamu Baraka Remembers Rev. Jesse Jackson

February 18, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Bill Clinton, Black America, Black Politics, Civil rights movement, Congressional Black Caucus, Democratic Party, History, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr, Rainbow Coalition

The Rev. Jesse Jackson passed away at the age of 84 on February 17, 2026. A man who was literally at Martin Luther King’s side when he was assassinated also led Operation PUSH and the Rainbow Coalition and who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, has left quite a legacy. I will discuss that with Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and contributor. I think that whenever we look at these personalities that emerged during the period of the Black liberation and so-called civil rights era, we have to always, in my opinion, contextualize these individuals. There would be no Dr. King or Jesse Jackson or any of them without the movement that emerged.

The Truth About MLK’s Murder Still Terrifies America

January 20, 2026 Edward J. Curtin Jr. , Scheer Post. Educate! Anti-war Movement, Assassination, Civil rights movement, COINTELPRO, FBI, History, J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King Jr

Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. They know that the U.S. government honored him with a federal holiday, but not of the evidence that the U.S. government killed him. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s murder. For more than 55 years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth. And few people, in the public’s massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation of King’s death.

Coretta Scott King Publicly Opposed Vietnam War Before MLK

January 19, 2026 Jesse Hagopian, Truthout. Educate! Antiwar Movement, Coretta King, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids schools, states ban honest teaching about race and gender, and public officials invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to call for restraint and “civility,” King’s legacy is being aggressively stripped of its political substance. Much of the scholarship and public memory of King has long privileged his work in the South, reinforcing the idea that racism was a regional aberration rather than a national system. This narrowing also obscures the intellectual and political partnership at the heart of King’s work, particularly the leadership of Coretta Scott King, whose global vision, antiwar activism, and organizing shaped both King’s politics and the broader freedom struggle.

Gaza, Venezuela, And Enduring Relevance Of Dr. King’s Critique Of Empire

January 17, 2026 Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Gaza, Martin Luther King Jr, US Empire, Venezuela

Every year in the U.S., what has emerged as a cynical ritual around the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King takes place, where the state uplifts an image of Dr. King that is compatible with the fiction of what the U.S. society sees itself as and that depoliticizes King by ignoring his progressive Anti-war and anti-imperialist politics. But with the medieval barbarism of the Israeli genocide in Gaza fully supported by the U.S., rogue state gangsterism by the U.S. in Venezuela, and consolidating fascist terror domestically, the critique of the U.S. by someone with the moral clarity of King combined with a material analysis of the interests driving U.S. policy brings a new clarity to the normalizing horrors being carried out by the U.S. state.

Dr. King’s Legacy: No Borders In The Workers’ Struggle!

January 15, 2026 Workers' World. Strategize! Martin Luther King Jr, Ruling Class, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

January 19 will officially mark the 40th anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, a demand won through many years of grassroots struggle. If he were alive today, King would have celebrated his 97th birthday on Jan. 15. Dr. King dedicated his entire adult life to fighting for Civil Rights for African Americans, especially in the Deep South during the 1950s and 1960s. And during the last year of his life, King showed concrete support for striking Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, while simultaneously calling for an end to the Vietnam war, a war he characterized as immoral.

What Can We Learn From Mexico’s Nonviolent Revolution Of Consciences?

October 14, 2025 Erik Olson Fernández, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! History, Martin Luther King Jr, Mexico, MORENA

Quietly, Martin Luther King Jr.’s commitment to Gandhian nonviolence, his effort to end poverty, and his push for a “radical revolution of values…from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society” crossed the U.S. border despite the walls. While the U.S. is mired in deep democratic decay, division and chaos, the Mexican people have given King’s ideas and actions new life south of the border. What can we learn from this grassroots democratization movement that from 2018-2024 lifted 13.4 million people out of poverty and significantly reduced inequality despite the challenging pandemic years? Dr. King’s last book asked, “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”

Missing Links In Textbook History: The American Left Part III

August 27, 2025 Jim Mamer, Scheer Post. Educate! Civil Rights, History, Human Rights, Martin Luther King Jr, The Left

Is it not predictable that when segments of a population are harassed, marginalized and enslaved, they will eventually revolt? Does that not constitute a demand for justice? According to American historian Herbert Aptheker, in North America from the 1600s to the end of the Civil War, there were at least 250 revolts each involving at least 10 enslaved persons. The largest revolt of about 500 enslaved people took place in Louisiana in 1811. All of these rebels, widely cursed by those in power as threats, might better be remembered as America’s Black huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. Throughout American history episodes of racist violence intensified when African Americans — and other people of color — made legitimate claims to full citizenship. In the twentieth century, given the right conditions, any of those incidents should have triggered a renewed civil rights movement, but for a variety of reasons, most did not.

Trump’s Presidency And The Prospects For Peace In 2025

January 22, 2025 Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Donald Trump, Martin Luther King Jr, Peace, US Imperialism

A lot of people are angry about the inauguration falling on MLK Day this year, but I actually believe the convergence of dates is auspicious because it gives me the opportunity to bring the issues that Dr. King raised in his speech Beyond Vietnam–Time To Break The Silence to this forum. In this speech, Dr. King raised the issue of the triple evils plaguing this country and the world: racism, poverty, militarism. What Dr. King was alluding to what we in the Black Alliance for Peace recognize is imperialism, which is why BAP was founded on April 4, 2017, to commemorate this pivotal address, and as a means to pick up the mantle of Dr. King and raise the consciousness of the masses in this country to the issue of imperialism that he spoke of.

Protest Trident Submarine Base In Honor Of Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 16, 2024 Leonard Eiger, Popular Resistance. Resist! Martin Luther King Jr, Nuclear Weapons, Peace, Washington State

Bangor, WA - Members of the Resist US-Led War Movement and Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action were present, on January 13, at the demonstration against Trident nuclear weapons at the Bangor submarine base. Due to severe cold weather, which caused mechanical difficulties with equipment, the Main Gate at Bangor was closed. About 35 demonstrators braved the 20 degree weather and voiced their desire for a nuclear weapons-free world to drivers and passengers in backed-up traffic entering the Trigger Ave. entrance. Signs with quotations by Dr. King stated, “We Still Have a Choice Today: Nonviolent Coexistence or Violent Annihilation” and “When scientific power outruns spiritual power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”

The Forgotten Socialist History Of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 2024 Matthew Miles Goodrich, In These Times. Strategize! History, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, Socialism

In 1952 a 23-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a love letter to Coretta Scott. Along with coos of affection and apologies for his hasty handwriting, he described his feelings not just toward his future wife, but also toward America’s economic system. “I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic,” he admitted to his then-girlfriend, concluding that “capitalism has outlived its usefulness.” King composed these words as a grad student on the tail end of his first year at the Boston University School of Theology. And far from representing just the utopianism of youth, the views expressed in the letter would go on to inform King’s economic vision throughout his life.

MLK Would Have Been 95 This Year; Let’s Make His Dream A Reality

January 15, 2024 Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Chuck Collins, Other Words. Educate! Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, Racism, Wealth Divide

This January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. Nearly a century after the late civil rights leader’s birth, it’s a good time to reflect on the work still to be done. Just over 60 years ago, in his famous “I Have A Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, King declared: “We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” Sixty years on, as our report “Still A Dream” highlighted late last year, there’s been some progress.

Ban The War Criminals From King Day Celebrations

January 11, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Black misleadership class, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, War crimes

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. His birthday became an official federal holiday in 1983 and predictably the understanding of the significance of his work is worse due to the designation of this supposed honor. King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, was one of the most public attacks on the liberation movement. His death was followed by decades-long imprisonment of other liberation fighters, the mass incarceration system, and the creation of a buffer class for the purposes of cooptation. All of these issues should be the subject of remembrance and discussion instead of the maudlin exercises that we are subjected to every January.

MLK: Beyond Vietnam To Ukraine

January 19, 2023 Rick Sterling, Resumen English. Educate! History, Martin Luther King Jr, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

In April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an eloquent and stirring denunciation of the Vietnam War and US militarism. The speech titled “Beyond Vietnam” is relevant to today’s war in Ukraine. In the speech at Riverside Church, King talked about how the US had supported France in trying to re-colonize Vietnam. He noted, “Before the end of the war we were meeting 80% of the French war costs.” When France began to despair in the war, “We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war.” King went on to recall that after the French finally left Vietnam, the United States prevented implementation of the Geneva Accord which would have allowed Ho Chi Minh to unite the divided country. Instead, the US supported its preferred South Vietnamese dictator. The U.S. has played a similar role in blocking compromise solutions and international agreements to the Ukraine conflict.

US Activists Honor The Anti-War Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 17, 2023 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Martin Luther King Jr, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

“We are here, honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” said co-executive director of The People’s Forum, Claudia De La Cruz, to a crowd of hundreds gathered in Times Square, in front of the US Army Recruiting Station, on January 14. “We are here to reclaim his legacy and say: no to war.” The organizers and workers mobilized to demand an end to NATO and a peaceful resolution to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The rally and march was organized by the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, a US anti-war organization, and the People’s Forum. Activists raised slogans to demand a peaceful resolution of the war through negotiations rather than continued US weapons funding. Banners read “Money for our needs/Not the war machine” and “No to NATO/Yes to peace”.

Economic Justice Coalition Launches ‘Full Employment For All’ Campaign

January 17, 2023 Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. Create! Congress, Full Employment, Martin Luther King Jr, Worker Rights and Jobs

In an effort to "create an economy of full employment for all regardless of race, gender, or religion," 10 leading U.S. economic advocacy groups on Monday launched a new campaign calling for a federally subsidized jobs program targeting communities plagued by high unemployment. The Full Employment for All campaign is timed to coincide with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and the 60th anniversary year of King's "I Have a Dream Speech." Just as King's indictments of U.S. capitalism and militarism are often overlooked, omitted, or overshadowed by his civil rights work, the full name and purpose of the August 1963 demonstration—the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—have been eclipsed by the iconic speech he delivered there. A year before his April 1968 assassination—which happened while he was supporting striking Black Memphis sanitation workers—King wrote that "we must create full employment or we must create incomes."

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