50 Years Since Mlk - by Brandon Terry Et Al (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

April 4, 2018, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death. This collection grapples with his enduring legacy. Though he is widely celebrated as a national hero--martyr to an inspiring dream about our country's largest possibilities--many younger Americans now greet his name with suspicion, viewing him as an essentially conservative figure. These essays offer critical engagement in place of canonization, recovering--and scrutinizing--the profoundly radical nature of King's political, moral, and religious thought.

About the Author

Joshua Cohen is Coeditor-in-Chief of Boston Review, member of the faculty of Apple University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Brandon Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.

Brandon Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.

Ed Pavlic is the author of Live at the Bitter End; Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener; Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia.