King in those last days of his life was speaking to how the environment and the conditions in which people live and work affect their lives and well-being.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermon to judge people by the content of their character not by the color of the skin still thunders like a hammer on an anvil today, writes Armstrong Williams.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once confessed to Harry Belafonte that he feared Black Americans were "integrating into a burning house," or a nation losing its moral vision, according to the late New York singer and activist. The problem, Belafonte said, required everyday Americans to “become the firemen.”