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We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr., the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism-what he called the \"giant triplets.\" Jennifer J. Yanco takes steps to redress this imbalance. \"My objective is to highlight the important aspects of Dr. King's work which have all but disappeared from popular memory, so that more of us can really 'see' King.\" After briefly telling the familiar story of King's civil rights campaigns and accomplishments, she considers the lesser-known concerns that are an essential part of his legacy. Yanco reminds us that King was a strong critic of militarism who argued that the United States should take the lead in promoting peaceful solutions rather than imposing its will through military might; that growing materialism and an ethos of greed was damaging the moral and spiritual health of the country; and that in a nation where racism continues unabated, white Americans need to educate themselves about racism and its history and take their part in the weighty task of dismantling it.

We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr., the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism—what he called the \"giant triplets.\" Jennifer J. Yanco takes steps to redress this imbalance. \"My objective is to highlight the important aspects of Dr. King's work which have all but disappeared from popular memory, so that more of us can really 'see' King.\" After briefly telling the familiar story of King's civil rights campaigns and accomplishments, she considers the lesser-known concerns that are an essential part of his legacy. Yanco reminds us that King was a strong critic of militarism who argued that the United States should take the lead in promoting peaceful solutions rather than imposing its will through military might; that growing materialism and an ethos of greed was damaging the moral and spiritual health of the country; and that in a nation where racism continues unabated, white Americans need to educate themselves about racism and its history and take their part in the weighty task of dismantling it.

The Boston Women's Health Collective is a group of young women in the late 1960s who gathered information on issues relevant to women and shared their own personal experiences, which they later assembled in the form of a book called 'Our Bodies, Ourselves.' The book is considered a milestone in the women's movement as it allowed women to regain their right to reliable and accessible information on health and sexuality as seen from a female perspective. The book has spawned 15 different versions and a number of others still underway. At the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, women working on different versions around the world had the opportunity to meet and share their experiences about their respective projects.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. was one of the most important moral voices of the twentieth century. Central to his work was the question of how we treat one another. His commitment to nonviolence as a tool for social change and his courageous leadership were driven by the conviction that each of us deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Dr. King has become an iconic figure in the pantheon of American heroes, MLK Day is a national holiday, and we have a memorial to him on the National Mall. But what was his dream, exactly, and have we really

Martin Luther King Jr. was born into an exceptional family in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. His father, a Morehouse graduate, was a Baptist minister and civil rights leader active in the NAACP. His mother, Alberta Williams, was a graduate of Hampton University, where she trained as a teacher, although her teaching career was cut short by laws that precluded married women from teaching. Both of Dr. King’s parents had a long history with the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Alberta’s father (Dr. King’s maternal grandfather) was the minister there at the time that she married King Sr., who after the death of

Martin Luther King Jr. was truly a prophetic voice. He warned us about a number of forces that, if left unchecked, lead to an increasingly unjust and unstable world. We have chosen not to heed his messages and find ourselves in a state of growing crisis on a number of fronts, all of which have their origins in systems of injustice. History would suggest that, at some point, systems based on extreme injustice collapse. But whether the current system can survive is not really the question we should be asking ourselves. Rather, it is whether we want it to survive,

Yanco reviews Silent Invaders: Pesticides, Livelihoods, and Women's Health edited by Miriam Jacobs and Barbara Dinham.