HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY!In honor of King, please make sure to read the following:

• “I Have a Dream” (video and text); background here.
• “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (text with explanatory notes).
• “The Drum Major Instinct” (text).
• “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” (text and video excerpt); background here.

MLK IN CONTEMPORARY PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVE: “Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy.”

MLK VS. JOHN RAWLS? “MLK’s Philosophical and Theological Legacy.” He was a Rev. Dr. after all.

MLK VS. CONSERVATIVES? “Conservatives still don’t get Martin Luther King.”

MLK VS. CONTEMPORARY PROGRESSIVES? “Martin Luther King’s Conservative Principles.”