Today is a good day to remember that Martin Luther King, Jr. spent the last period of his life trying to organize the Poor People’s Campaign, explicitly conceived as a multiracial movement for economic justice. He was quoted as follows in a newspaper article that appeared shortly before his death (h/t Matt Yglesias):
In a sense, you could say we are enga…
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