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What would Martin Luther King think?

Fifty years after the civil rights icon was assassinated, it seems everything has changed except the timeless perversion of power.

Reverend Martin Luther King speaks at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. U.S. Information Agency photograph by Rowland Scherman

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

April 4, 2018

On this 50th anniversary of Reverend Martin Luther King’s assassination, his memory somehow feels less like a testament than a question—less “Here’s what he thought” than “What would he think?” What would he make of the presidency of Donald Trump? King was not only a man o...

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