
By Julianne Malveaux — Years ago, young people used to wear a wristband that said WWJD, or What Would Jesus Do? Today, we should have a real or imaginary wristband…
By Julianne Malveaux — Years ago, young people used to wear a wristband that said WWJD, or What Would Jesus Do? Today, we should have a real or imaginary wristband…
January 15, 2024 MLK Day Edition of Vantage Point — Host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined by special guest Rev. Dr. Waltrina Middleton, Executive Director, Community Renewal Society, Chicago, IL. Topic: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King “A Time to Break Silence”.
By Kali Holloway, AlterNet — The Martin Luther King Jr. who is cynically trotted out every time racial unrest erupts in our cities is the MLK who can be conveniently…
By Hajar Yazdiha, The Conversation — Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza and the West Bank after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, debates have arisen among historians and…
Source: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture — On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law, designating the third Monday in…
By Ben Jealous — This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: Racism is not just…
Conservatives have a long history of contorting the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to further political goals at odds with King’s vision of a colorblind society. By Hajar Yazdiha,…
A Boston Review Book Talk with Cornel West. Editor’s Note: In February 2018, the Cambridge Public Library hosted a conversation between Harvard University professors Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry, Elizabeth Hinton,…
His last Sunday sermon reminds us about the perils of not being woke. By Esau McCaulley, NYT — In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of…
Jan 16, 2023 MLK Day Edition of Vantage Point The Professor Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by Rev. Dr. Major Jemison, President Emeritus, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Oklahoman City, OK;…
Baltimore, MD – Rev. Dr. Robert Turner, Senior Pastor of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple and former Pastor of the historic Vernon AME Church in Tulsa, OK, vows to walk to Washington,…
By Julianne Malveaux — Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), introduced legislation to…