In the introduction to The Radical King, Cornell West declares that this new collection of King’s writings presents “a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.” West argues that King was a revolutionary figure, one who called for “a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life, and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and average citizens.” Read More

On Tuesday, March 27th, Charles Marsh and PLT contributor John M. Perkins presented a feature entitled “Does God Care About Justice?” at the Veritas Forum at Pepperdine University. The Veritas Forum is an organization that facilitates conversations between students and faculty on a range of beliefs and life’s hardest questions in pursuit of truth. Read More

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. While thousands will gather on April 4th to commemorate his legacy and witness worldwide, Clayborn Temple in Memphis is planning a special tribute to the civil rights legend with three showings of “Union: A Musical” and a community-wide dialogue focused on the work of democracy in the city and country as a whole. Read More

On April 24th, 2018, Professor Patricia Hampl will be giving a lecture at 2:00 pm in Nau Hall 211, with a Q&A to follow. Afterwards, at 5:00 pm, she will be discussing her book, The Art of the Wasted Day, at the Bonhoeffer House at 1841 University Circle. There will also be a book signing following the talk. Read More

Reinhold Niebuhr was among the most influential American theologians in the twentieth century. The author of Moral Man and Immoral Society, he emphasized the need to guard against the evil inherent in humanity, and his ideas ultimately helped inform the Civil Rights movement. Read More

Danielle L. McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street documents the widespread rape of black women by white men in the south, and argues that responding to these crimes served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement. While such rapes were common, they were rarely prosecuted, and seeking justice become a key demand of civil rights workers. Read More

On Tuesday, March 27th, Charles Marsh will co-present a feature entitled “Does God Care About Justice?” with PLT Contributor John M. Perkins at the Veritas Forum at Pepperdine University. Read More

Michael K. Honey’s “Going Down Jericho Road” is a detailed and readable history that examines both the local history of black workers’ struggle for union rights and King’s Poor People’s Campaign. A work that is equally a labor history and a history of civil rights, Honey’s book is an important contribution to our understanding of the last phase of King’s career. Read More

On September 24, 2014, Paul M. Gaston, professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia, captivated a large audience with his guest lecture on his experience as a local activist in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Focusing his lecture around the theme “how you bring about change,” Gaston used the University of Virginia as his primary example and also included personal anecdotes on the process of integration in the Charlottesville community. Read More

In Paradise Lust, Brook Wilensky-Lanford introduces readers to the enduring modern quest to locate the Garden of Eden on Earth. It is an obsession that has consumed scientists and theologians alike, including the first president of Boston University and a knighted British engineer. Today the search has been taken up by amateurs. Inspired by an Eden seeker in her own family, Wilensky-Lanford writes of these unusual men and women with sympathy and wit. Read More