The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned

Posted on AllSides January 16th, 2023
From The Left
Avery Williamson
OPINION

In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last Sunday sermon at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. It was entitled, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” and although King doesn’t say the word “woke,” he uses the concept as it was understood by many Black folks then, well before the term was co-opted by the political right to refer to any left-leaning policy that it wanted to condemn.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/opinion/martin-luther-king-woke-reparations.html

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