On this Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday weekend, we consider the last campaign Dr. King began before his murder 30 years ago: the Poor People’s Campaign. A new moral movement is renewing the call for economic justice as an antidote to embedded systems of racial and class oppression.

Audio notes:

• 0:00 Reading – read by Ginny Johnson
• 2:45 Hymn “The Soul of Martin” by Judy Fjell, sung by the choir
• 5:20 Sermon “A New Poor People’s Campaign” – Rev. Dr. Roger Jones