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The JOURNAL looks at Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic equality on this week's 42nd anniversary of his assassination. Bill Moyers talks with Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander on the historic struggle for economic and racial justice.
In the months before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had
expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic
inequality. Now, on this week's 42nd anniversary of King's
assassination, Bill Moyers sits down with experts Bryan Stevenson
and Michelle Alexander to discuss how far we've really come as a
country, how poor and working class Americans have been falling
behind and what America must do to fulfill Dr. King's vision.
Stevenson is longtime advocate for social justice and human rights
in the context of criminal justice and is on the faculty of NYU's
School of Law. Alexander holds a joint appointment with Ohio
State's Moritz College of Law and Kirwan Institute for the Study of
Race and Ethnicity and is author of The New Jim Crow .