Upon MLK Holiday Week, Struggle Against Violence, for Economic Justice, and Racial Equality Undermines Black Leadership

By Hazel Trice Edney, The Charleston Chronicle

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As America prepares to pause on Monday, January 20, to commemorate and reflect on the life and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the three most essential aspects of the revered civil rights leader’s work – economic justice, racial equality and strategic non-violence – remain among the foremost civil rights issues across America.

Moreover, despite talk by civil rights leaders, organizations and activists, African-Americans have yet to unify enough to significantly impact public policies or attitudes that lead to tangible change.

“It is essential to American survival,” said Marc Morial, president/CEO of the National Urban League, a foremost civil rights organization with an economic agenda. “This issue is an issue of morality, an issue of historic positioning. An issue that has to touch each and every person, each and every institution, because … we have to get it right.”

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