Jan20
Department of Photographs, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art
Today we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on our fight to end hunger. We owe so much to the late Dr. King. His words and leadership continues to inspire us in our mission to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger. Here are our three picks for the best articles on the internet honoring MLK’s vision for a hunger-free community.
- Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Dr. King’s final book before he was brutally assassinated outlined his vision for the next phase of the civil rights movement and how to eliminate poverty. The chapter Where Are We Going shares what he believed is a critical solution to poverty, a guaranteed reasonable income, still debated today. Read the chapter.
- Daily Kos contributor Joel Berg, is also the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. In this 2009 piece, he writes about a modern approach to ending hunger and poverty, built on Dr. King’s Poor People Movement. Read “Dr. King’s Other Dream: Ending Poverty and Hunger.”
- In this 1967 correspondence between Robert F. Kennedy to MLK, following Kennedy’s trip to rural Mississippi, the senator from New York was moved to address the staggering poverty and hunger he saw there. Read the letter here.
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