In 2025, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Economic Populism Is More Relevant Than Ever
The political media calls Trump a “populist.” But as Dr. King made clear in a 1965 speech, American populism was a movement against everything...
Read MoreLet Justice Roll Down
“Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma.”
Read MoreHammer of Civil Rights
“Exactly one hundred years after Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation for them, Negroes wrote their own document of freedom in their...
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Jackie Robinson, 1919-1972, A Man for All Seasons
Jackie Robinson, the grandson of a slave, a man who emerged from a small house on Pepper Street in Pasadena to become one of the nation’s greatest...
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Dozens Hurt During March in Chicago
Chicago — Dr. Martin Luther King was struck on the head by a rock Friday at the beginning of a march by 800 Negro and white civil rights...
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Nat 'King' Cole dies of cancer at 45
Nat “King” Cole, 45, world-renowned singer and jazz pianist, died in his sleep at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica early Monday, three weeks...
Read MoreEnd of content
No more pages to load