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As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’

January 16, 2023

Christian Nationalism, General, Immigration & Refugees, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Revival, Theology

Editor’s Note: Originally published on the RLC Blog January 31, 2018. Editor’s Note: As we move towards the month where we celebrate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., into Black History M...

As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’

Otis Moss III

January 31, 2018

Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

In times such as this, we need not celebration and commemoration of men and women who lived valiantly, but we need to be disturbed and re-energized; not by the “safe” King, created by certain persons to tone down his radical legacy, but we need the radical King, the radical, Hamer, and the radical Rustin.