In an opinion article in the Philadelphpia Inquirer, Clarence Jones, scholar in residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, says that the reactions of the media and political pundits to Wright's remarks are reminders of how white America remains afflicted with amnesia with respect to its treatment of African Americans.

Liberation Curriculum staff members and participating teacher, Emily Burton, presented the King Digital History Project at the 2008 Organization of American Historians (OAH) conference in New York City. Photo by Clayborne Carson.

Dr. Carson, addresses an audience of about 200 at the Renaissance Theatre as the 2008 Freedom and Social Justice speaker.

at Oakton Community College in Skokie, Illinois.

This new lesson, featured in the OAH Magazine of History, explores how the African American freedom struggle, better known as the civil rights movement, is part of the global movement for human rights in the 20th century.

Speaking to the Stanford Daily, Dr. Carson said that “the Dalai Lama is the person who best represents the nonviolent values of Martin Luther King and Gandhi.” He added, "if we do not pay attention to Tibet, then we are saying that nonviolent resistance doesn’t work.”

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To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), the Aurora Forum joins with Stanford's King Institute to host a day-long conference on the struggle for economic justice.

Dr. Clayborne Carson joins a panel of analysts who discuss King's complex legacy and how U.S. race relations have evolved since his death.

Dr. Susan Englander, the Associate Director of The Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute, talks to the Washington Post about the work of Martin Luther King and what is being done today to further his mission

at New York's Riverside Church.

In the book, What Would Martin Say? (Harper), co-written by Joel Engel, Clarence Jones, scholar in residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, posits what King might say about today's divisive issues.