An influential, white, old, anti-LGBTQ+ megachurch pastor has said that Black trailblazing civil rights hero Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was “not a Christian at all” and was “a nonbeliever who ...
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 ...
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2024, when the most famous American Civil Rights leader in history would have turned 95, he would surely have celebrated the progress that has been ...
In 2024, the federal holiday intended to celebrate the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. happened to fall on his actual birthday. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 15, 1929, King dedicated his life ...
The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were released Monday by the Trump administration. Before that, the more than ...
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 ...