Reflecting on Dr. King’s Legacy in the Shadow of White Supremacy’s Return to Power

Today, we invoke the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., not as the sanitized symbol America has crafted for convenience, but as the radical truth-teller, agitator, and revolutionary who stood firm against the very powers now ascending to the highest office. Dr. King’s legacy is not the fantasy of a passive dreamer who asked us to simply “get along.” He…