Martin Luther King Articles

To renew its promise to young people, Britain requires a new answer to its social mobility crisis, argues Seema Malhotra The Social Mobility Commission’s annual State of the Nation report at the end of last year confirmed what we all know – that Britain has a deep...

I have made no secret of my pride in representing Newcastle, the area in which I was born and grew up, but there is one day in Newcastle’s history that is a particular source of pride for me. On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University awarded Dr Martin Luther King an...

Nelson Mandela was fond of Martin Luther King’s phrase, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’. Barack Obama was surely right to say of Mandela that he ‘took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice’....

Wednesday 28 August 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. More than two hundred thousand people stood before the memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, whose Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect 100 years before, on 1...