Martin Luther King, Jr. is often remembered for his soaring oratory. But the commonplace emphasis on his rhetoric in place of his ideas too often allows enemies of King's agenda to domesticate him or, worse, to weaponize his taken-out-of-context words to bolster the very forces of racism and oppression that King had struggled to defeat. This episode discusses King’s views on nonviolence, the Black Power movement, gender, hope, political economy, Beloved Community, and more.
March 21, 2018
