On April 4, 1968, the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was cut short by an assassin’s bullet. By the time of his death, King had shifted his rhetoric to include the issues of people ...

Penningroth is a professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and author of the award-winning The Claims of Kinfolk, he lives in ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so famous that it often eclipses his other speeches. King's greatest contribution ...

Dear Readers: Please enjoy this excerpt of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply ...

In the ’60s, white evangelicals condemned Martin Luther King Jr. In the ’80s, we lauded a convenient, hagiographic version of his life. How should we remember him now? As the white editors of ...

The date was Aug. 28, 1963. An estimated quarter of a million people came to Washington D.C. on a sun-filled day to march for jobs and civil rights. The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev.

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but also as its strategic and political architect. While his ...