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Editors’ Note

APRIL 4, 2°18, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Martin

MLK Now

ON FEBRUARY 23, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., took

King in Context

BRANDON TERRY’S ESSAY reminds me of the words of the

The Pivot to Class

IN A POSTHUMOUSLY published essay, Martin Luther King

Diagnosing Racial Capitalism

“I AM CONVINCED,” Martin Luther King, Jr., said in

A National Problem

THE “COSTS OF CANONIZATION” of Martin Luther King,

On Violence and Nonviolence

IN THE MONTH following the assassination of Martin

Sparking King’s Revolution

FIFTY YEARS AGO, Martin Luther King, Jr., protested

A Revolution in Values

I AM HONORED to engage these thoughtful responses from

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

ON THE AFTERNOON of April 4, 1968, James Baldwin was

Against National Security Citizenship

NO PART of the vision statement for the Movement for

1968 and the Crisis of Liberalism

FOR A LONG TIME, a faction of U.S. liberals shouldered

Exceptional Victims

EXACTLY A YEAR before he was murdered, Martin Luther

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

IN HIS FINAL BOOK, Where Do We Go From Here (1967)