Sixty Years Later, We Can Make King’s Dream a Reality
In our new report, “Still A Dream,” we note progress—alongside some humbling findings about how far we have to go.
We Still Have a Dream
Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Internationalist Vision is More Crucial Than Ever
On MLK Day this year, it’s worth remembering not just King’s sharp diagnosis of American society’s ills, but also his prescription for transformative social change.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Internationalist
King looked beyond our borders — not only at injustice, but how people worked together to end it. It’s an example we need today.
Dr. King Remained Hopeful. So Can We.
King’s “Testament of Hope” sounds as relevant today as the day it was published.
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!