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A National Call for Moral Revival: Rev. Jimmie Hawkins on the renewed Poor People’s Campaign

In 1968, the Spirit was moving and doing a new thing in the fight for civil rights: a Poor People’s Campaign that sought to link issues of race and class justice and bring about transformative, moral change. 50 years later, … Continue reading

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MLK’s Mantle in 2018: Barber, Theoharis, and Strategy for the Poor People’s Campaign

Correction: The date of the culminating march in Washington, D.C. is June 23rd. Some heroes don’t wear capes. Instead of flight or invisibility, the mantle of Martin Luther King Jr. gives one more grounding and visibility. But sometimes that visibility … Continue reading

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