Progressives Push Back as Trump, Pentagon, and ICE ‘Hijack’ MLK’s Message

Brett Wilkins, staff writer
“Dr. King was an anti-war, anti-capitalist justice seeker who rejected poverty, racism, militarism, and the death penalty,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley reminded would-be hijackers of the slain human rights leader’s message.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an increasingly vocal critic of the U.S. war in Vietnam, speaks on the subject at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. on February 8, 1968. (Photo: Joseph Klipple/Getty Images)

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