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King's Challenge: Racial Equality With Economic Justice

Martin-Luther-King.jpgForty 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"
• Jeff Cohen: "King's Voice Still Silenced"
• E.J. Dionne: "Forty Years On"
• Isaiah J. Poole: "Still Far from the Mountaintop"
 

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• Rev. Jesse Jackson, Roger Wilkins and Taylor Branch: "Lessons of King and the Civil Rights Movement"
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Forty Years Later, Still Far From the Mountaintop

By Isaiah J. Poole
April 2nd, 2008
“You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to hell because he didn't see the poor. … And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to hell, if we don't use her wealth. more »
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Read The Speech

By Bill Scher
March 25th, 2008

Pat Buchanan's latest rantings are merely the starkest evidence of a conservative effort to undermine the objective of Sen. Barack Obama's historic address, the objective of unity. more »

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Pat Buchanan's Racist Rant

By Isaiah J. Poole
March 24th, 2008

MSNBC has another Imus problem, and his name is Pat Buchanan. more »

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Obama Drama: One Wright Makes a Big Wrong — Obama Needs Counter-Rhetoric

By A.F. Cook
March 17th, 2008

From www.redzonepolitics.com/blogitics, Weekly Wrap more »

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One in Nine: Conservatism's Strange Fruit

By Isaiah J. Poole
February 29th, 2008

New Power, New Vision for Social JusticeOne in 100 is bad enough. One in nine is a full-blown national tragedy — one aided and abetted by conservative ideology. It's time they were called into account. more »

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