By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Editor’s Note — On this weekend especially devoted to celebrating the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., it is worth re-reading the remarks he made in accepting the award and then the lecture he gave the following day nearly a half century ago. King’s identification of the “spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man’s chief expresses itself in [the] three larger problems … [of] racial injustice, poverty, and war” resound largely in our present moment. They underscore again how large and great and timeless was the mission he gave his life to.

By Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

By Lee A. Daniels
I suspect that one thing the huge stone sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Memorial dedicated to him Sunday in a quiet, contemplative corner of the National Mall will do for many visitors is help bring him to life.

Editor’s Note:  Forty-eight years and two months after his speech for the ages, the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. will once again ring out over the National Mall in the nation’s capitol this Sunday as the memorial to him is dedicated.   The attorneys who staffed the NAACP legal Defense and Educational Fund during the [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
Tomorrow, April 9th, is the forty-third anniversary of the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. It began the night of the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was buried.

By Lee A. Daniels
A new book published last month reminds us that the power of “new media” to support democratic change isn’t new.

By Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

By Martin Luther King, Jr. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as [...]

By The Editors
Sometime next year Martin Luther King, Jr. will likely become more visible, more available, one might say, to millions more Americans.

By The Editors This Saturday Glenn Beck, the conservative talk show personality, is leading a rally of conservatives at the Lincoln Memorial. He has declared it “divine providence” that it will occur on the forty-seventh anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and the famous “I Have A Dream” speech of Martin Luther King’s Jr. [...]