Martin Luther King

MLK and the Black Misleadership Class

Black Agenda Report By Glen Ford January 16, 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is the greatest sheer spectacle of hypocrisy and historical duplicity of the year, as Black misleaders take center stage to claim his mandate and mission on behalf of a corporate party. “While Dr. King rejected an alliance with the ‘triple evils,’ Black Democratic misleaders describe their deal with the Devil as smart, ‘strategic’ politics.” The birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is commemorated each year at thousands of events in literally every U.S. city, yet the martyred human rights leader’s political philosophy is totally absent…

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Open Letter to All Who Live and Love

Statement on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 16, 2017 by Cynthia Joseph, Green Party National Headquarters Office Manager There is much concern with the direction we are taking. Unchartered territory, familiar and unfamiliar faces litter the landscape, coloring it with fear and apprehension. Our lives are not perfect. Even in ideal circumstances, we still have to pay bills, take care of our health and each other. As Americans, we’ve always seemed to find a way even in the direst of circumstances. Fear is a product of hard times we’ve endured and the prospect that it could only get worse…