Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta minister and leader of the desegregation movement, left, talks to a packed church gathering. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The arc of America’s history is bent by institutions

Timothy P. Carney · January 20, 2020 4:17 pm

In this 1960 file photo, Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta. The civil rights leader had carried the banner for the causes of social justice â organizing protests, leading marches and making powerful speeches exposing the scourges of segregation, poverty and racism.

The woke Left vs. Martin Luther King Jr.

Washington Examiner · January 20, 2020 5:00 am

In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, photo, people wearing "Save The Paseo" shirts stand among attendees at a rally to keep a street named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Paseo Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo. In January, the City Council voted to rename one of the city's main boulevards, The Paseo, after King, but many in the community want the old name back. A petition drive put the issue on the Nov. 5 ballot pitting neighbors against each other.

'It’s very important to Kansas City': Residents fight over renaming historic street after MLK

John Gage · November 6, 2019 3:54 pm

Beltway Confidential

Free speech protects the civil rights movements of the past, present, and future

Caleb Dalton · October 22, 2019 9:15 pm

The night the censors drove old ‘Dixie’ down

Daniel Keefe · October 19, 2019 4:00 am

Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial monument on September 2, 2015 in Washington, DC.

MLK’s iconic speech has been balled up and thrown away by Woke America

John Reiniers · August 27, 2019 4:00 am

Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, John Stennis.

Biden said MLK and RFK were his ‘only two political heroes.’ In 1988, he told segregationist senator he was ‘a hero’

Joseph Simonson · July 8, 2019 7:12 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Biden compares Trump’s election to assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King

Jon Brown · June 23, 2019 4:38 pm

Magazine - Features

Postcard from: Ebenezer Baptist Church

Naomi Lim · March 29, 2019 4:00 am

Harris jabs Biden, Sanders, and Warren: Older leaders should ‘know when to pass the baton’

Naomi Lim · March 24, 2019 5:40 pm

Magazine - Features

Why we don’t have the leaders we want

Arthur Brooks · March 22, 2019 12:00 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign stop for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at La Poste, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Perry, Iowa.

AOC lies; Reagan was no racist

Craig Shirley, Mark Weinberg · March 12, 2019 4:00 am