In December 2017, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. called for a multiracial, nonviolent army of the poor, a new generation of activists resurrected the civil rights leader’s boldest crusade ...

They are co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. Read more opinion on CNN. In June, when we held the ...

(RNS) — With COVID-19 restrictions preventing an intended in-person rally in Washington D.C., at least a million supporters of the Poor People ... justice lobby Network; Valarie Kaur, a ...

The original 1968 Poor People's Campaign was ... to Washington D.C. People lived there for six weeks. Sponsor Message Civil Rights icon Jesse Jackson, the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition ...