50 years later, MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign is back — and more needed than ever

Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, and most politicians have chosen to commemorate his legacy by tweeting out some choice quotes — and then leaving it at that.

At the time of his death, however, Reverend King was doing more than crafting inspirational phrases. He was laying the groundwork for his Poor People’s Campaign, a intersectional movement dedicated to eliminating poverty in America, the richest nation on earth.

As part of the campaign, King helped to organize a 3,000 person protest camp on the Washington mall for six weeks. After King’s death, the movement tragically lost most of its momentum. Fifty years later, Reverend Dr. William Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis have resurrected his movement, with chapters in 40 states, all of them guided by the same mission: challenging the country’s “distorted morality” and replacing it with something just. Read more…

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