1. Jesse Jackson: How Dr. King lived is why he died
In The New York Times: "We owe it to Dr. King to commemorate the man in full: a radical, ecumenical, antiwar, pro-immigrant and scholarly champion of the poor."
From The Washington Post: "I learned of MLK's death as a teen in the segregated South. The activist was more complicated than history remembers him."
3. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, he was less popular than Donald Trump is today
From USA TODAY: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a revolution in values with an expansive political agenda despite backlash to his controversial views."
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