We asked community members: How are you keeping King’s dream alive? See their answers below.
MLK Legacy Section
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Special Section
For several years the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR) has offered a special Martin Luther King, Jr. print edition in celebration of his legacy.
Providing a space for community voices is very important to us. Each year, in addition to an event calendar, we select a quotation from Dr. King’s extensive writings and ask community members to share their thoughts on the relevance of the quotation or Dr. King’s legacy.
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Posted inLocal & State, MLK Legacy Section, News, Special Editions
Black economic empowerment takes center stage at MLK Day event
Over 30 guest speakers and panelists were slated for the event to discuss a range of topics including the mental and physical effects of gentrification and engaging in public policy.
Posted inLocal & State, MLK Legacy Section, News, Special Editions
MLK Holiday Breakfast will be broadcast live on radio
This year the motivational messages that honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Minneapolis MLK Holiday Breakfast on Monday, January 16 will be available to listeners on 830 AM WCCO Radio starting at 8 am.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Opinion, Special Editions
Some never tire of abusing Dr. King’s legacy
Reading Dr. King and reviewing his speeches will give anyone a rounded picture of him that can allow us to truly cast our comments about him in the light of truth and of what he would likely approve.
Posted inLocal & State, MLK Legacy Section, News, Special Editions
2023 MLK Calendar of Events
Find MLK Holiday happenings in the Twin Cities and beyond.
Posted inLocal & State, MLK Legacy Section, News, Special Editions
MLK in 2022: ‘Has the hour yet come to get rid of racism?’
How do King’s words, life and legacy resonate in our current times? Community members sound off.
Posted inBlack History Month, MLK Legacy Section, Opinion, Special Editions
MLK influence felt in George Floyd protests
People across the world took to the streets to nonviolently protest the police killing of George Perry Floyd in their cities.
Posted inBlack History Month, MLK Legacy Section, National, News, Special Editions
MLK called for a revolution of values
MLK’s speech “Beyond Vietnam,” delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, spoke out against U.S. violence and the war in Vietnam.
Posted inFeatured, MLK Legacy Section
Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half-century ago, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginning to chip away at discrimination in education, jobs and public facilities. Black voters had only obtained […]
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Stevie Wonder’s 1981 call for an MLK holiday
Read Stevie Wonder’s speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. January 15, 1981, at the rally calling for an MLK holiday.
Posted inFeatured, MLK Legacy Section, Opinion, Special Editions
Dr. King’s legacy requires us to continue the fight for justice
Honoring Dr. King’s legacy in the 21st Century means rigorously interrogating the U.S. criminal justice system and refusing to accept the high rate of incarceration among African Americans.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Opinion
Not as much as we would like has changed since the murder of MLK
The U.S. is a very different place than it was in 1968. Or is it?
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, News
No King holiday without Wonder
It has been 40 years since Stevie Wonder penned the up-tempo riff of the ‘Happy Birthday’ song that created a groundswell of support for a MLK Holiday.
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Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr: ‘Transforming a neighborhood into a brotherhood’
‘ We suffer from a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. ‘
Posted inArts + Culture, MLK Legacy Section
The tour that helped create the MLK holiday
Gil Scott-Heron relates his experience with Stevie Wonder on his 1981 ‘Hotter Than July’ tour in which Wonder advocated and organized for the MLK Holiday.
Posted inFeatured, MLK Legacy Section, Special Editions
2020 MLK Community Calendar
Find events in the Twin Cities and beyond to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s enduring legacy as a champion of social and racial justice, equity and equality.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Opinion
Remembering Dr. King and ‘The Other America’
In 2019, the two Americas King wrote about still remain. A nation once lauded for its enviable and expanding middle class has evolved into a nation of people who are either growing wealthy or growing poor.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Opinion
What would King think of today’s America?
If he were alive, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be wholly disgusted with the American experiment.
Posted inBulletin, MLK Legacy Section, Special Editions
Government shutdown affecting MLK celebrations across the country
While the Twin Cities may be chock full of events to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the partial government shutdown is affecting observance plans across the country.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Special Editions
MLK’s radical message: More than just a dream of brotherhood
Dr. 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 as a national holiday. Tributes are paid to him on his death anniversary each April, and his legacy is honored in multiple ways.