Commentary: What the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would encourage us to do today

Commentary: What the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would encourage us to do today

Today, we honor what would have been the 97th birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. If King were alive today, I believe he would encourage us to fight against injustice and inequality. He would inspire us to love our neighbors. King was a prophet and master of language, sent by God at a time in history when race relations were deeply fractured. He understood that words had the power to heal or hurt, to tear down or build up.  His last spee…

What MLK might have to say about America today

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POLITICS: What MLK might have to say about America today

What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th birthday? America is a far different place from the nation that saw King felled by an assassin’s bullet in 1968 at the young age of 39; different even from the country that made this a federal holiday in 1983. Black Americans still face real inequities. Look at the huge numbers of crime victims, disproportionately black, gene…

The dilemma of destiny as our own prisoners: What MLK would tell us

What MLK knew about the game Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership through the lens of game theory, argues that his commitment to disciplined nonviolence was not only moral, but strategic—a deliberate attempt to move society out of a bad equilibrium such as the famous game theory called “The Prisoner’s Dilemma,” from Martin Luther King’s “Game Theory,” in the January edition of The Wall Street Journal. The Prisoner’s Dilemma theory has endured for…