“I Have a Dream”
Sixty years later, King’s dream still calls
By Bridget Moix — August 31, 2023
(RNS) — Six decades after King proclaimed his dream that we would all be ‘free at last’ from racism and violence, Black lives are still threatened every day by race-based killings.
Where is justice in a collapsed system?
By Beth Kissileff — February 25, 2022
(RNS) — Last month, a bridge in my Pittsburgh neighborhood collapsed into the ravine below it. I'm missing a sense of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s hard words for white Christians
By Robert P. Jones — January 17, 2022
(RNS) — King’s exasperation at self-satisfied white Christians holds up a mirror that is still painfully accurate today.
What we won’t hear on Martin Luther King Day, and what we need to hear
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — January 17, 2022
(RNS) — Our memory of King’s ‘Dream’ speech has been reduced to sanitized sound bites.
Don’t domesticate MLK
By Tom Krattenmaker — March 30, 2018
(RNS) — Whenever we remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some people inevitably pull out a piece of sandpaper and try to smooth the sharp edges of the great civil rights prophet.
ANALYSIS: Celebrations of ‘I Have a Dream’ speech obscure its critique
By Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks — August 23, 2013
(RNS) On the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, scholars say it would be a mistake to celebrate King’s “I Have a Dream” speech without also acknowledging its profound criticism of American values.
Pealing bells to mark 50 years since MLK’s rousing speech
By Larry Copeland — July 31, 2013
(RNS) The King Center in Atlanta says it is coordinating bell-ringing events in the U.S. and around the world on Aug. 28 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
‘The American Bible’ collects the texts that We the People love to fight about
By Daniel Burke — July 3, 2012
(RNS) There are certain speeches, songs, books, letters, laws, and axioms that Americans appreciate enough to argue about, says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. By Daniel Burke.
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