Jan 20, 2025 · King’s speech deftly encapsulates the divide-and-conquer strategies that have defined the past century of right-wing US politics, before going on to offer prescient remarks about how elites ...

5 days ago · Inflation was a driving force behind Donald Trump's election victory, but he's put the issue on the back burner during his first week in office. ... Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Dec 30, 2024 · What Dream Did Martin Luther King Jr. Have for the Economy? Dr. King wanted the government to eradicate poverty by giving every American a guaranteed, reasonable income.

It served as the inspiration for the Justice40 initiative and the unprecedented funding from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which directed hundreds of billions of dollars to address climate challenges in environmental justice communities.

1 day ago · The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

Jan 15, 2024 · In examining Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s profound impact beyond civil rights, these are the five lesser known links between his dual influence on justice and economics: The Economic...

Jan 20, 2025 · MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: I will never change in my basic idea that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to the Negro in his struggle for freedom and justice.

Jan 16, 2025 · To unite the “two Americas” King proposed “a guaranteed minimum income for all people, and for our families of our country,” anticipating the concept of universal basic income. “I submit this afternoon that we can end poverty in the United States. Our nation has the resources to do it… The question is, whether our nation has the will.”

Confronted now with the interrelated problems of war, inflation, urban decay, white backlash, and a climate of violence, it is now forced to address itself to race relations and poverty, and it is tragically unprepared.

Jan 19, 2025 · Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights marchers outside the state capitol building on March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Alabama.