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Articles on Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK)
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A historian examines what it means to value black life, then and now.
Six of the nine people who died were black women. One year later, a Brandeis professor examines how black women have endured a legacy of racial violence in the U.S.
To mark the start of Black History Month, a Classicist reflects on the inspiration King drew from ancient Greek culture.
Martin Luther King’s legacy must be contextualised within a larger global struggle against racism and hatred. Africans should revisit the values he espoused and continue with the anti-racism crusade.
On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, five educators reflect on recent campus protests and describe concrete actions universities can take to bring opportunity to all.
Rosa Parks was a hero in the fight against segregation … but she was just one of many.
A former activist turned professor says previous student movements may have opened the door for people of color to have greater opportunity but fell short of changing the power structure.
As the debate spreads from Missouri to universities across the country, insights from The Conversation’s coverage of race on campus.
Community policing efforts in New Haven and Gainesville offer a stark contrast to military-style policing.
One year on from Ferguson, the message of Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail could not be more relevant.
A movement grew out of Michael Brown’s death one year ago. The people in #BlackLivesMatter want us to fully witness violence against black youth. Their tools are cell phones and social media.
Why the recent Supreme Court case on gay marriage could make a huge difference for racial justice.
The hoopla surrounding the novel’s release is misguided; after all, how much power could a novel written 50 years ago wield in today’s charged environment?
The current climate is inviting us to conceive of Baltimore not as a place where the law doesn’t work but, more radically, as an example of Italian legal philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s “state of exception”.
America is a country with pockets of poverty with neighborhoods filled with unskilled workers with limited opportunities.
A panel of scholars comments on the origins and the implications of the violence in Baltimore.
The protests over police shootings of unarmed black men may signify a new kind of civil rights movement based less on spectacle and more on social media and data.
Notre Dame alumna reflects on the extraordinary life, work and the legacy that Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, leaves behind for Catholic institutions.
In an early scene in Selma, a sunlit stairwell is the backdrop for several floral-clad girls chatting happily about the hair styles of Coretta Scott King. This gorgeous vision then explodes before our…
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