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Category: Activism
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A new book about one of the great African-American religious thinkers.
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“The only real revolutionary, people say, is a man who has nothing to lose. There are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose.” Dr. King’s words still ring true today.
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People forget that Dr. King was every bit as committed to economic justice as he was to ending racial segregation. In this excerpt from All Labor Has Dignity, he ties together the War in Vietnam with the problems facing the labor movement.
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The global picture for youths in the criminal justice system can be bleak, but David Chura sees glimmers of hope in the hard work of a few individuals.
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“I thought of twenty million black people who dreamed that some day they might be able to cross the Red Sea of injustice and find their way to the promised land of integration and freedom. There was no more room for doubt.”
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When a minority of youth lash out violently, their crimes are met with outrage, revulsion and an almost exclusively punitive response. But there is more to young people than flash mobs and riots.
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In his final book, Martin Luther King, Jr., demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C., officially opens to the public today. In honor of this historic event, we’ll be posting excerpts from books in The King Legacy series on Beacon Broadside every day this week.
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An excerpt from a book that provides a different view of the lives of African-American domestics from the one depicted in The Help.
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A federal judge ruled that a Nevada school didn’t violate a student’s rights when they punished him over threatening online speech.
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