Hip Hop: Today's Civil Rights Movement?

Todd Boyd

Todd Boyd teaches at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, writes: "I would suggest that you might get a better read of what's going on in the world of Black people today by listening to DMX on It's Dark and Hell is Hot than by listening to repeated broadcasts of Martin Luther King speeches."

Nina Simone

Martin Luther King's Last Campaign for Equality

"We know that it isn't enough to integrate lunch counters," King told a crowd at Mason Temple in March 1968. "What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn't earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee? Historian Michael Honey

Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech


King's Final Speech

Martin Luther King, Jr., Research & Education Institute