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40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream
April 2 - Dr. Martin Luther King recognized that the next phase in the African-American’s quest for civil rights and equality was one that would focus on the economic divide between the wealthiest Americans, the working class, and those in poverty. King’s analysis of economic inequality as the foundation of racial inequality remains as valid today as it was 40 years ago. 40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream examines the progress in and challenges to economic equality between African Americans and whites since April 4, 1968 using data from the US Census Bureau, the Economic Policy Institute, the Survey of Consumer Finances, and other sources. Findings conclude that despite educational advances, economic equality for African Americans is still a dream, not a reality. Watch Dedrick Muhammad speaking about 40 Years Later: The Unrealized American Dream on YouTube By the Inequality and the Common Good project.

Op-Ed
U.S.: 40 Years in the Wilderness
April 1 - Forty years after his death, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words tragically speak to our current reality. "The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro," he wrote in the 1967 book, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" "They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of deception and comfortable vanity." By Dedrick Muhammad, published in Black Star News and The Skanner.

Op-Ed
Change to Believe In
February 21 - In February of 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission Report was released. The Kerner Commission was created in response to the 1967 urban Black rebellions in Detroit and Newark. The report famously stated: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal. By Dedrick Muhammad, published in Black Agenda Report, Final Call, Inequality.org.

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