Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. AP Photo Paul Harvey, University of Colorado Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform and redeem the United States. His birthday is celebrated… Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
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Screening of the 1970 film “King, a Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis”
LONDON Sunday 18 February 6.30pm at Sands Films Screening of the 1970 film "King, a Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis" We were delighted to be back at the beautiful Sands Films Cinema for a special screening of a rarely-seen documentary directed by the highly respected Hollywood director Sydney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network,… Continue reading Screening of the 1970 film “King, a Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis”
Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
by Sharon Austin, the Conversation What would MLK do? I don’t have to wonder what Dr. King would recommend. He believed in institutional racism. In 1968, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Council sought to tackle inequality with the Economic Bill of Rights. This was not a legislative proposal, per se, but a moral vision of a just… Continue reading Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
Making tax work for girls’ education
From ActionAid: How and why governments can reduce tax incentives to invest more in girls’ education We are launching these documents at the Global Partnership for Education replenishment meeting in Senegal in February 2018. The Global Partnership for Education has set an important example in requiring developing countries to maintain or increase the share of… Continue reading Making tax work for girls’ education
50 Years of Counter-Power
50 powerful stories of people-led resistance and transformation since 1968 that have shaped our world. http://50years.tni.org/ Great resource.
The World Poverty Clock
http://worldpoverty.io/index.html The clock’s team is aiming to paint a clearer and more timely picture, so that countries can check their progress to escaping extreme poverty by 2030 — one of the targets under the UN's global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world poverty clock is the brainchild of the non-profit arm of World Data Lab… Continue reading The World Poverty Clock
70% of the UK’s working population “chronically broke”
Economic insecurity has become the “new normal” in the UK with at least 70% of the UK’s working population “chronically broke”, according to a study by the thinktank the Royal Society of Arts. Thriving, striving or just about surviving, the RSA/Populus survey of more than 2,000 workers, found that while about 30% of respondents said they lived… Continue reading 70% of the UK’s working population “chronically broke”
MLK Global 