MLK Jr. Taught Us that Justice Requires Building Community

Each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we return to Dr. King’s vision of the “beloved community”—a society grounded not only in the absence of injustice, but in the presence of dignity, shared responsibility, and genuine belonging. Too often, however, we remember that vision as moral rhetoric rather than a concrete mandate, something to admire rather than something to build.

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For much of the last century, racial justice in America has been understood primarily as a defensive project.