GameChangers: Black Women Scholars pushing the MLK movement

GameChangers: Black Women Scholars pushing the MLK movement

As the nation marks Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in 2026, a new generation of Black women scholars is expanding the conversation beyond soundbites and sanitized history.  These Black women academics are interrogating King’s work through the realities of a polarized America – one shaped by voter suppression, racialized technology, mental health crises, attacks on DEI, book bans, and a democracy under strain. They are the modern Dreamkeeper…