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Fifty Years On, MLK’s Call for Economic Justice Rings True
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down fifty years ago today. In King’s final years, he turned increasingly to confronting the challenge of economic inequality: he called for a massive mobilization of Black, Native American, Latino, and low-income whites along with the labor movement to end business as usual in Washington, D.C. and put inequality at the top of the agenda. Fifty years on, King’s vision of a radical reshaping of the economy is more urgent than ever. |
