A True and Visionary Radical, Martin Luther King Jr. Was No Moderate
In his absorbing profile of the writer Alex Haley (author of “Roots” and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”) in the New York Times Book Review a year ago, Michael Patrick Hearn made a familiar mistake. He wrote: “Politically [Haley] he was a moderate, philosophically more Martin than Malcolm.” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was no moderate. Today, he is viewed as something of an[Read More…]