Links

I’ve had so many requests via email for links to the best-informed, most thoughtful reactions to my June 2019 MLK-FBI update article in Standpoint that I’ve decided to link to all of these here:

(1) Here’s David Greenberg’s long thoughtful piece in Politico:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/04/how-to-make-sense-of-the-shocking-new-mlk-documents-227042

(2) Here’s my Canadian MLK colleague Steve Smith’s powerful piece in Quillette:

https://quillette.com/2019/06/28/say-it-aint-so-doc-how-should-martin-luther-king-scholars-deal-with-the-rape-story/

(3) Here’s my NCSU MLK colleague Jason Miller’s two columns at The Conversation:

https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-scholar-and-ill-never-be-able-to-view-king-in-the-same-light-118015

https://theconversation.com/the-civil-rights-activist-so-close-to-martin-luther-king-jr-she-was-thought-of-as-his-other-wife-118750

(4) This Economist story is behind a ‘soft’ paywall, requiring a quick registration to see it in full:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/08/fbi-files-suggest-mlk-was-more-complicated-than-his-myth

(5) Here’s Lance Morrow’s important Wall Street Journal piece, which had a huge footprint but also requires registration. I’m happy to send the full text to anyone unable to access it via this link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reckoning-with-martin-luther-king-11560813491

(6) Here’s Dominic Green’s podcast with me at the Spectator:

https://spectator.us/american-outlets-mlk-transcripts/

(7) Here’s Tony Norman’s op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2019/06/04/Martin-Luther-King-David-Garrow-FBI-COINTELPRO-recordings-rape/stories/201906040028

(8) Here’s Jon Zimmerman’s New York Daily News op-ed:

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-face-the-whole-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr-20190612-u6hdhuga7zfefky3ll4twcdrty-story.html

(9) Here’s Ron Radosh’s two strong columns at The Bulwark:

https://thebulwark.com/what-are-we-supposed-to-think-of-martin-luther-king-jr-now/

https://thebulwark.com/sometimes-the-truth-hurts/

(10) Here’s the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s long editorial that ran beside my op-ed (which itself is on my “What’s New” page here):

https://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/opinion-looking-once-more-mlk-life-legacy/pCrmJTuYdxvxR9XmWKBgMP/