Monday, January 18 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. To remember and honor Dr. King’s legacy and activism, consider diving deeper into the not-so-distant past of the civil rights movement or checking out materials about the continuing strides for racial justice.
Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
by Doug Jones
Black America since MLK : and still I rise (DVD)
The Colored Waiting Room: empowering the original and the new civil rights movements : conversations between an MLK Jr. confidant and a modern-day activist
by Kevin Shird and Nelson Maiden
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander