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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left, appears at a Chicago news conference with Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh on May 31, 1966. AP Photo/Edward Kitch, File

January 14, 2026

Building ‘beloved community’: Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh

Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh shared a vision of ‘beloved community’ that shows how democracy begins not with power, but with how we live together.

Volunteers paint columns in a hallway during the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Washington, D.C., in 2019. Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

January 16, 2025

MLK’s ‘beloved community’ has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean?

Jason Oliver Evans, University of Virginia

Martin Luther King Jr. popularized the term ‘beloved community’ and gave it his own meaning. But the still-cited phrase was coined decades before.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in his White House office in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 1964. AP Photo

January 13, 2022

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder

MLK’s vision for nonviolence included abolishing what he called triple evils – racism, poverty and militarism.

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