Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Born this Day: Prophet Who Saw the “Far Deeper Malady”
By , January 15 2021
January 15 is the day on which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. He would go on to become one of the most powerful voices of all time against racism, oppression, violence, imperialism, and impoverishment.
By , January 15 2021
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year before his April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis. In the speech, King declared, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
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MLK Day: Who Killed Martin Luther King? The Cover-Up of the Century
By , January 15 2021
“Beyond Vietnam”, Silence is Betrayal: Martin Luther King’s Historic 1967 Speech
By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4 1967
Martin Luther King Jr. 4 April 1967 Speech at Riverside Church, Upper Manhattan, New York. The speech was delivered on the same day (April 4, 1967) one year before MLK was killed on April 4, 1968.
The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King: Survived Shooting, Was Murdered in Hospital
By Craig McKee, September 3 2016
Thanks to the nearly four-decade investigation by human rights lawyer William Pepper, it is now clear once and for all that Martin Luther King was murdered in a conspiracy that was instigated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and that also involved the U.S. military, the Memphis Police Department, and “Dixie Mafia” crime figures in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King: The U.S. is “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today”
By John Marciano, January 15 2019
King denounced the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” and saw the war was “a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” Later that spring, he asserted that “the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together“: we could not “get rid of one without getting rid of the others [and] the whole structure of American life must be changed.”
For Martin Luther King Day: Let Us End His “Second Assassination”
By Matthew Ehret-Kump, January 11 2021
While many people take the opportunity to treat Martin’s life as a pre-packaged hallmark card of cliché speeches, far too few take the time to fully appreciate not only the depth of his understanding of the multifaceted evils plaguing society but also his brilliant plans, methods and vision for creative problem solving.
Martin Luther King: The Struggle for a Living Wage and the End to War
By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 07 2017
What is routinely overlooked by the corporate and government-sponsored media in the U.S. is the political shift of Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) following the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965.
By Prof. Graeme MacQueen, January 18 2016
The great variety of evidence presented by attorney William Pepper pointed to the impossibility of the lone assassin hypothesis (James Earl Ray) and to the conspiring of several bodies, including the local police (Memphis Police Department), the mafia (local representative Frank Liberto), and federal police, intelligence and military units.
By Edward Curtin, January 16 2017
Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For almost fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government deception to hide the truth.
Martin Luther King: “I Have Been To The Mountain Top”
By Danny Schechter, January 23 2014
Mountaintops offer dynamic vistas and symbolize not only physical heights but inspiring points of prominence. On the night before he was murdered, Martin Luther King told a packed church in Memphis where he was crusading on behalf of the city’s garbage workers, that he had been to the mountain top.
