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Moving from Allyship to Solidarity

January 2026

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , NACC P on Instagram

By Irmin Durand, WE in the World

Three meals a day, education and culture, dignity, equality, and freedom, for all people.

As these things that Dr Martin Luther King Jr believed in and dedicated his life to achieving are being torn down all around us at speed, now more than ever is the time for us—’other-centered’—to continue to believe and to build together, in solidarity.

Solidarity as shared commitment, engaged action and mutual support, as the collective ‘we’, where those with power choose to move from being allies calling for change, to working alongside changemakers and sharing the risks and burdens of building a more just and abundant future together.

In the words of Dr King, “we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.” This is the time to move from advocacy and empathy to active participation in creating the conditions for this more just and abundant world to be born.

Remembering Claudette Colvin:

‘resistance is collective and it never stops’.

L- Source: Americans Who Tell The Truth

R- Source: Oprah Daily; Photograph by Andi Rice

At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. She was assaulted and arrested for it. Nine months later, Rosa Parks made the same refusal, and the Montgomery bus boycott began, led by Dr King.

Claudette Colvin died last week, on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, aged 86. In this article, a British journalist, author, and academic pays tribute to her bravery and examines the social dynamics that left her extraordinary action uncelebrated for so long.

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Brightspots

Photo Courtesy of Repairers of the Breach

Poor People’s Campaign

by Repairers of the Breach

In 2017, Repairers of the Breach co-launched the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We provide leadership to the campaign, including support to over 30 state coordinating committees.

Repairers of the Breach is co-anchor of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Our work draws on the unfinished work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the National Welfare Rights Organization, workers’ rights movements, women’s rights movements, religious leaders, and people of all races who launched the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 and called for a “revolution of values.”

Today, Poor People’s Campaign is a growing national movement organized to challenge the interlocking issues of systemic racism, systemic poverty, the war economy, denial of healthcare, ecological devastation, and the distorted false moral narrative of religious nationalism.

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Dose of Joy

SOLIDARITY POEM

for all those defending Human Rights

by Sabrina Mahfouzem

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Must-Read Articles

"Billboards like this publicly labeled King as a Communist two decades after national security agencies had marked his father as one."

Source: Dr King and Our Authoritarian Crisis by Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

"Dr King and Our Authoritarian Crisis"

by Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

At memorial celebrations across the nation this weekend, Americans will cross arms, grasp hands, and sing, “We Shall Overcome.” Many will bow their heads in prayer for our country. Some – and more than many of us care to admit – will look down to consider a question that has haunted them since last Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which coincided with the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Can America survive four years of authoritarian captivity?

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Civil Rights and Genuine Equity

Video by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change

In 1967, during the height of the fight for Civil Rights and equity for all, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave a talk called The Other America. In this, he highlights some of the challenges to bring about genuine equity when the realities of Americans were so vastly different that it was hard for those living on the other side to appreciate the conditions for others, even those within their own communities and neighborhoods.

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Overview: This program is designed to fund nonprofit organizations that advance the interests and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community through advocacy and with programs and services that meet the needs of LGBTQ+ people.

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