How We’re Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy
King was right: We need a multiracial movement to repair our country’s deep divides. Here’s where public scholarship plays a role.
Learning From King’s Last Campaign
Before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr. joined a campaign to unify working people of all races. Today, nothing could be more powerful.
An MLK Day Reflection: The Racial Wealth Gap Is Killing the Middle Class
Ninety years out from Dr. King’s birth, the typical white family had 41 times more wealth than the typical Black family
Martin Luther King’s dream requires we overcome “our fantasy of self deception”
To fulfill Dr. King’s dream we must drop the fantasy of a post-racial America and get real.
Report: Dreams Deferred
How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide
Martin Luther King’s Dream Rises Again
A new report uses facts, figures, and faces to make the case for the revival of the Poor People’s Campaign.
The MLK Interfaith Freedom Seder
Come to the 49th Anniversary Celebration that examines progress on racial justice since Dr. King’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech.
Poor People’s Campaign: Mass Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Come out to hear about the inspiration, vision and strategy for the Campaign drawing on the history and unfinished work of 1968.
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Reminds Us Just How Little Racial Progress We’ve Made
The racial wealth divide today has not decreased since James Baldwin died in 1987.
Reclaiming MLK
Dr. King left us a radical vision. Join IPS and a community of scholars and activists to reclaim this vision, our history and our future, part of the Institute for Policy Studies’s Liberation in Action 2017 Black History Month series!
For Black Americans, MLK’s Dream Still Isn’t Reality
Housing was a key part of King’s vision for economic justice, but most black Americans don’t own homes.
Black Youth and Elusive Freedom
As I weep over the death of America’s black men, I remember my brother’s struggle for his freedom against unnecessary police searches.
Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism
And he called them out fearlessly.
Where Do We Go From Here
IPS’s Phyllis Bennis joins a line up of special guests for an inter-generational teach-In on the triple evils of militarism, economic exploitation, racism.
Do Demonstrations Matter?
Phyllis Bennis and filmmaker Amir Amirani discuss the largest mobilization of people in human history — the 2003 protest against the invasion of Iraq — and its relevance to today.