(RNS) — ‘Fifty years after Martin Luther King died, America needs to hold a national funeral for King — the faux King we have created — so that we might hear anew the real King calling us to what he called a revolution of values,’ writes Raphael G. Warnock, pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. (Commentary)

(RNS) — If we benefit from the status quo, we can seek to maintain it rather than recognize that a wheel of injustice might be grinding our neighbor down. King shone a light on that injustice and it often made white Christians uncomfortable. His words and legacy, if we listen, still make us uncomfortable today.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘Certainly, ending racism might seem like an aspiration but, like the very first disciples, we followers of Jesus are called to bear witness to something that the world cannot yet believe is possible,’ said the Rev. Sharon Watkins, director of the National Council of Church’s Truth and Racial Justice Initiative.

(RNS) — Fifty years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., images still convey the power of his work.

(RNS) — Montgomery. Albany. Birmingham. Selma. Washington, D.C. In each of these places King demonstrated an evolving theology.

SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — Above all, what most impresses me all these years later is the power of Martin Luther King Jr.’s message. It is the antithesis to the ‘America First’ slogan.

(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.

(RNS) — Ten books to add depth and understanding to the April 4 anniversary of King’s assassination in 1968.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — Two of the three sites are houses of worship.

NEW YORK (RNS) — In ‘Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,’ King reminded his listeners of why he began the work for which he would ultimately give his life.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — On issues of gun violence, racism, economic inequality or immigration, our human instinct is to not offend and to wait for others to act. He challenged the institutional oppression of his day and calls us to confront the injustices of our own time.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — The Rev. Cleophus Smith marched in 1968 with black laborers supported by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in their efforts to improve working conditions.

A month before the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, Smith, 75, talked with Religion News Service about his dual roles as an associate minister and a sanitation worker.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — One of the two surviving sanitation workers who went on strike in 1968 and who remain on the job today recalled King’s last sermon and his continuing legacy.