Martin Luther King Day

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Most of Dr. King’s People Never Did ‘Get There’
http://www.blackcommentator.com/122/122_cover_king.html

Dr. King’s Global Vision: Today’s Missing Ingredient – The Black Commentator
http://www.blackcommentator.com/73/73_cover_since_mlk.html

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Day; ‘Our King Is Not Dead!’
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=635&blz=1

The King we've lost
On Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday,
and what we've lost as his historical memory fades

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be 76 tomorrow. (15 January) If he had survived. And in every conceivable sense of the word, he has not. At least, not in White America.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=18380

MLK JR. IN HIS OWN WORDS
"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words ring true more than four decades after he spoke them. http://www.alternet.org/story/21003/

Hope And Despair On King Day by Marcellus Andrews,
TomPaine.com Exclusive
Too often liberals forget that King's legacy stems from solidarity among people -- not government power. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/hope_and_despair_on_king_day.php
WWKD: What Would King Do? by Mara Voukydis,
CommonDreams.org
Voukydis -- of United for a Fair Economy -- calls on Bush to honor King's legacy by strengthening opportunities for all Americans. http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003378

Holiday For A Hero by Earl Ofari Hutchinson,
Alternet
Why millions of Americans simply do not see King as a legitimate American hero. http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003375

Whitewashing The Rebel by Geov Parris,
Working for Change
Why do we give Dr. King - a brave leader who took serious risks for justice - such sanitized, Hallmark- style tributes? http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#003377