RIP MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (January 15th, 1929- April 4th, 1968)

Beyond the Dream. 
Today, I urge us to complicate the narrative we are taught of Dr. King’s political activism to reveal his changing ideologies towards a discourse of “Black Power” near the final years of his life.   

“Power is not the white man’s birthright; it will not be legislated for us and delivered in neat government packages, ” he concluded. “It is a social force any group can utilize by accumulating its elements in a planned, deliberate campaign to organize it under its control.”  – Martin Luther King, Jr in Where Do We Go from Here?, quoted in Waiting ‘til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power In America by Peniel E. Joseph

-Aisha