King's Challenge: Racial Equality With Economic Justice

Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., our blog team and progressive allies are reminding the nation of the full extent of his vision. King sought to push the limits of the national debate on economic justice as well as race—and, now more than ever, so must we.
 

Commentary

• Terrance Heath: "Exhausting Race" [1]
• Jeff Cohen: "King's Voice Still Silenced" [2]
• E.J. Dionne: "Forty Years On" [3]
• Isaiah J. Poole: "Still Far from the Mountaintop" [4]
 

Video

• Rev. Jesse Jackson, Roger Wilkins and Taylor Branch: "Lessons of King and the Civil Rights Movement" [5]