Author

Hajar Yazdiha

Hajar Yazdiha

Hajar Yazdiha is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Commentary

How the distortion of King’s words enables more, not less, racial division within American?society
By: - January 16, 2023

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge a person on character and not race. In the protracted battle to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker […]