By Lee A. Daniels
There is no “battle for Dr. King’s legacy,” as one newspaper headline, intended to be attention-grabbing, put it this week. The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the black freedom struggle was affirmed for all time at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

By Ifa Bayeza
Last Friday, August 28th, marked the anniversary of three pivotal events of the last half-century of American history—events which have brought black Americans from the neo-slavery they had endured since Emancipation to the next stage of the freedom struggle we face today.

By John Shearer and Lee A. Daniels
Speaking in March 1968 before Local 1199, the powerful Service Employees International Union of health-care workers in New York City, Martin Luther King, Jr. declared at one point, using one of the many great phrases and insights that fill his speeches that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

He had less than one month to live.

By The Editors
Forty-one years ago this weekend, America was changed forever when the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. TheDefendersOnline asked some prominent leaders and writers to share their recollections of the incident, the aftermath, and the effect it has had on their lives.