Martin Luther King Jr

Start SlideshowIt’s no secret that school textbooks don’t cover the whole of American history, and that important facts about this great nation are often omitted to serve a narrative. In the name of keeping truth alive, The Onion presents…

Why do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was jailed 29 times and ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from Martin Luther King, Jr. and from American society, much of which seems to have forgotten the contributions that…

The Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) holiday ironically honors values despised by many on the left. King’s intellectual and moral challenge to judge people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin, is in direct…

“Off the top of my head? I’d probably concentrate billions of dollars into the hands of a few international defense contractors and I suppose I’d call them Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, and then—gosh, I don’t know—I’d let them…

A strange thing happened on the way to making a more tolerant society. We produced a less tolerant, more bigoted generation of American citizens. For the last decade or so, we have seen what Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff rightly called…

Thirty years ago today, Marian Anderson died while staying with her nephew in Portland, Oregon. Once one of the most influential African American figures in the U.S., Anderson changed the heart of our nation and our children. Almost any…

Ephemeral. Ethereal. A moment in time. Washington’s cherry blossoms have a century-old history and different meanings that come with that history. But at their core, they serve as both a welcome harbinger of spring and a reminder that…

A whopping 67 percent of U.S. teens use TikTok. Sixty-two percent are on Instagram. And 95 percent use YouTube, according to a recent study by Pew Research Center. While the effects of constant social media usage are alarming, equally as…

Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a great pastor and civil rights leader. He had a deep mind of discernment that focused on timeless truths. The holiday in his commemoration is not only the time to celebrate his depth, character, and…