Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital forms the cornerstone of Los Angeles County’s public investment in the health and well-being of millions of residents who have few other options for medical treatment. Opinion Editorial: Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital: A failed promise renewed Just a few months after leading the historic voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., …
Editor’s Note: Martin Luther King III is a global human rights advocate, chairman of the board at the Drum Major Institute and son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. To bring back the safeguards that my father spent his life fighting for, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer must bring voting rights legislation to the US Senate floor …
Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of history. Los Angeles Clippers Head Coach Doc Rivers spoke for …
The death of an unarmed African-American man at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, which unleashed a wave of protests across the US, is a reminder of the decades of White prejudice and practice of institutional racism against African-Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr. was well aware of this issue when he became the most important leader of America’s Civil …