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VIDEO: Panelists Discuss Martin Luther King's Crusade for Economic Justice
WNYC panel focuses on King's later years.
may be remembered as a crusader for civil rights, but he was fighting a different battle when he was assassinated more than 40 years ago.
This was the main focus of “Made in America: King’s Dream in Today’s Economy,” a panel discussion hosted by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer at the Sunday.
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Panelists included Obery Hendricks, professor of Biblical Interpretation at the New York Theological Seminary, Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur, of Make The Road New York, Peniel Joseph, a history professor at Tufts University, Christine Yvette Lewis, of Domestic Workers United, Jeanne Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College and Roy Innis, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.
In addition to Lehrer, Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor of political science and African American studies at Princeton University, and Terrance McKnight, of “All Ears with Terrance McKnight,” moderated.
