Related Stories
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
17 January 2024
Dr.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
10 January 2024
Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
12 July 2023
“Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands.
Black Alliance For Peace
19 January 2022
Black Alliance for Peace reminds us that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peter Kelley
08 July 2021
King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you.
Sylvie Laurent, interviewed by Arvind Dilawar
07 April 2021
King explicitly linked the value of human dignity to the material conditions necessary to enable people to live a decent life.
Stephen Joseph Scott
27 January 2021
Each year in January as King is honored in the eyes of the public, there is little mention of the demands of the man and his mission: his fight for
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
29 January 2020
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
Matthew Miles Goodrich
29 January 2020
MLK was dreaming of a socialist future long before the tumultuous decade of the Sixties.
Eric Mann
22 January 2020
Dr. King brought a powerful and frontal indictment of the system of white supremacist, racist, capitalism.
More Stories
- Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary19 Jun 2024With its recent historic loss of the Parliament majority, the African National Congress has formed a coalition with the Democratic Alliance, heir to the old apartheid regime, demonstrating its…
- Abayomi Azikiwe19 Jun 2024Newly elected President Bola Tinubu, the Chair of ECOWAS, has mounting political problems while advocating military intervention in neighboring Niger.
- Ezra McCoy19 Jun 2024Jay Z has consistently shown himself willing to be used as a Black face to run cover for conservative political endeavors. He is now promoting a voucher program that will reduce funding for public…
- Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic19 Jun 2024The undemocratically imposed bourgeois political misleaders in Haiti must be understood as tools of imperialism that have led the country into its ongoing crisis.
- Tariq Ali19 Jun 2024In the latest repellent display, western media are hailing the rescue of four Israeli hostages at the cost of 270 Palestinian lives.