Martin Luther King Jr.

Watching and listening to the 50th anniversary commemorations of the murder of Civil Rights and anti-war leader Martin Luther King, Jr. has been strikingly similar to the decades-long corporate media efforts to minimise and distort his actual legacy.

Martin Luther King Jr. probably had a premonition of dying. A day before he was assassinated he predicted that he might be taken out by “some of our sick white brothers.” Later in the same speech he added, “But it really doesn’t matter with me now…I’ve been to the mountaintop ….

Behind the Trump veneer is a system of oppression and exploitation, which must be uprooted.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of the central figure in the movement for civil rights and peace in the United States during the 1960s.

Another look at Martin Luther King Jr.

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic…” Martin Luther King Jr. said this in a letter to his future wife Coretta Scott on 18 July 1953.

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King reconnected with the radical black tradition by adding his voice of opposition to the murderous U.S. war machine unleashed on the people of Vietnam. For Dr.

Note: This is the text of a lecture delivered at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, in honor of African American History Month on February 8, 2017.