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This year is the perfect time for the Poor People's Campaign
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This year is the perfect time for the Poor People's Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” even more than his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, raised a vision for social justice and democracy that remains unfinished, writes Peniel E. Joseph, who argues that however distant we may feel from King’s life, his legacy is everywhere around us.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” even more than his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, raised a vision for social justice and democracy that remains unfinished, writes Peniel E. Joseph, who argues that however distant we may feel from King’s life, his legacy is everywhere around us.
A mass slaughter of genocidal proportions backed by the current administration is taking place in Gaza. A candidate espousing U.S.-style fascism has energized his base and makes no secret of his dictatorial day-one agenda.