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About Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani is a journalist who hails from Atlanta, Georgia. He has previously worked as a reporter-blogger for ThinkProgress, United Republic, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Alternet. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs and received his master’s in public administration from Syracuse University in 2014.

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook his Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism
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Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook his Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism

Citizen Engagement, Civil and Human Rights, Democracy, Economy [Wealth/Wages/Work], Editorial, Equality/Equity, Racial Socioeconomic Relations, Young Voices

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook his Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism

America’s celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. typically focus on his civil rights activism: the nonviolent actions that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The last few years of King’s life, by contrast, are generally overlooked. [...]

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook his Critiques of Capitalism and MilitarismZaid Jilani2016-11-29T17:36:59-05:00